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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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