Re:ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
by DoubleMalt on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:30PM
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While this is true, only open source makes choice and privacy even possible.
They are obviously trying to reinvent themselves partly in the image of Google, whose motto "Don't be evil" also sounds very hollow nowadays.
But I shudder when I think of a world where Google is built upon closed software.
[To clarify: I know that Google does not open most of their software. However, with their reliance on open source software they were a big driver for the legitimacy of the movement]
They are obviously trying to reinvent themselves partly in the image of Google, whose motto "Don't be evil" also sounds very hollow nowadays.
But I shudder when I think of a world where Google is built upon closed software.
[To clarify: I know that Google does not open most of their software. However, with their reliance on open source software they were a big driver for the legitimacy of the movement]