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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by hdfbdtbcdg on Friday August 09, 2019 @01:49AM (#20651642)
It is very much not pedantry. Chrome, Safari etc are proprietary programs. Calling them open source is like calling a peanut an orange.

Foss comes with the requirement that you as the user have certain freedoms. With Chrome etc you do not have those freedoms.

Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by skinnymuch on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:31AM (#20653685)
And yet I clarified all that. And all you’ve done is repeat stuff that has already been clarified. Nothing you have said has been of any substance or use.

Still you have said nothing of substance or use. It’s pedantic in this thread because I had already referred to the browser engines as open source and referred to electron. I didn’t explain what electron was either. You didn’t find a big problem with that.

And I’ll ask again, what differences would there be if the browsers themselves were open source? We already have Chromium vs Chrome. So what would be different if Chrome was open source?

Not to mention responding to anything else.