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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by devoply on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:24PM (#20313397)
Yeah as a dev I am not touching this with a 5 foot pole. Google open source is not open source. It's a nasty tactic of pretending to be open source while not actually being open source as the speed of development is so fast that it's impossible to fork anything and then its laden with proprietary blobs where you have to "trust" Google which basically means tolerate them doing nefarious shit.
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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by kgraves on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:06PM (#20313614)
> ...as a dev I am not touching this with a 5 foot pole. Google open source is not open source.

I do not understand what this means, the code is open isn't it?[0]

This sounds very over exaggerated and alarmist, just like Android and for example Chromium people have forked it and removed all the Google proprietary stuff from it[1], I am sure you and other privacy conscious developers in the future will do the same for Fuchsia.

[0] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/source_code

[1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by meruru on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:01PM (#20313888)
Yes, it's open source. I wouldn't try to claim it isn't, like the parent is doing. However Google being behind it still makes me nervous, specially since this might end up replacing the copyleft Linux kernel and contributing to furthering the locking-down and tivoization of Android.
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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by eikenberry on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:29PM (#20314301)
Chromium doesn't match with this description. It has a ton of forks and derivative works, both open source and commercial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browser...

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