• danielton@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hate how everybody seems to be OK with this because Chromium is nominally open-source, when that ended up being the whole reason we are in this mess.

    • Laxaria@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Being “open source” seems to be lead people to think it is altruistic or good for the community as a whole.

      Being open source is really just a categorization. A fully for profit organization can make something valuable open source and then leverage that for commercial reasons (like building highly monetized additional code on top).

      It is in Google’s best interests for Chromium to dominate the web even if it is open source due to Chrome’s broad reach and Google’s heavy leverage of the web for revenue, like its ad services.

      It is shortsighted to see what is happening and then go “well I don’t see a problem”.