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Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by orf on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:49PM (#15397206)
> Because there are people of various political ideologies that contribute to Mozilla and to free software.

And a lot of people across the world in different countries. Compared to a lot of the rest of the developed world US liberals/Democrats are centrists.

If you are American and are looking at their 'leftist' views using only US politics as a reference point you may be skewing your results.

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Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by fyrstenberg on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:54PM (#15397244)
> In a lot of the rest of the developed world US liberals/Democrats are centrists.

Err, no, growing up in an European socialist country I can say this is not true. The left in the US has caught up pretty well ..

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Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects by QAPereo on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:00PM (#15397277)
Really. I’d love some concrete examples to make that case.
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