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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (5 children)

yes and they either become popular because of their usefulness and get organized like firefox/mozilla or they get co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified like chrome/chromium

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Firefox/Mozilla as an example is a bit of a stretch, given the fact that Mozilla Browser/Firefox is originally based on the open-sourced version of Netscape Navigator

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

very much a stretch, i was trying to relate the comment to current events and that was the closest thing i could come up with atm.

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