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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by mkettn on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:30AM (#19300452)
At least Google and Apple are big contributors to open source software (e.g. Chromium, CUPS). Instead of roasting big companies (because... privacy?) we should work together. This picture does more harm, because it view companies purely as enemies.
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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by Phenix88be on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:48AM (#19300536)
Open source is NOT free software. You are not free because you are using Chromium instead of Chrome. Free software is a philosophy, Open source just mean every one can read the source.

You can contribute to Open Source and be evil...

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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by majewsky on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:49AM (#19301167)
Well technically, when you can just read the source, it's not called "Open Source", but rather "Shared Source".
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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by tasn on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:55AM (#19301212)
I think the term source-available is more commonly used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by icebraining on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:57AM (#19300574)
Chromium is free software, just like the vast majority of open source.

The philosophies are certainly different, but the code produced by one generally fits the other definition as well. MIT, BSD, Apache, WTFPL, etc - all of these licenses fit both the open source and free software definitions.

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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by saagarjha on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:38AM (#19300484)
> At least Google and Apple are big contributors to open source software (e.g. Chromium, CUPS).

…that's a strange choice. Basically every company in that comic contributes in some way to open source.

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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by kome on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:21AM (#19300671)
Contributing to open source is not contributing to free software, the big 5 are indeed all doing quite the opposite: creating walled gardens, trying to monopolize the distribution of software and goods, and pushing for a web monoculture.

Also, they are making the web a more centralist and frankly, boring, place.

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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by pmoriarty on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:19AM (#19301394)
"creating walled gardens, trying to monopolize the distribution of software and goods, and pushing for a web monoculture"

...and spying on users.

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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by saagarjha on Monday March 04, 2019 @01:02PM (#19303529)
That's why I said "open source" and not "free software". Those companies do contribute a bit to "free software", but really only in token amounts.
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Re:De-Google-Ify Internet by sridca on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:18AM (#19301873)
Sensible comment getting downvoted by alarmist HN. What a surprise.
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