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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by LamaOfRuin on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:30PM (#18621241)
I'm pretty sure that as far as lineage goes, Chrome was actually born more FOSS (KHtml) than Firefox was (Netscape). Firefox is certainly more FOSS in spirit now than Chrome has ever been, but Mozilla is certainly not immune from the kinds of shenanigans possible for any open source project that is entirely controlled by a single large organization.
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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by jolmg on Thursday December 06, 2018 @03:54PM (#18622113)
Chrome's closed source though. You probably mean Chromium. Still, I'm not sure how much in the spirit of FOSS it is to have an open source version to drive development while marketing the closed source version which might be filled with spyware for all we know.
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