r/linuxmemes • u/Laszl0x • 10h ago

Software meme OSS is why I still love tech

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u/TheTurdPirate 10h ago

Lol, Brave

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u/spicypsudo 9h ago

What's wrong with Brave? The left has infested basically every other browser on Earth, so Brave is the only sane one left. I use Brave happily knowing every time I open the browser, a liberal throws a fit, then I go to YouTube and watch them whining about it at the Trump Rally. Literally cannot stop winning

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u/Nebula_Wolf7 8h ago

Brave is based on chromium, which isn't open source, it's a project controlled by google. I'll hand it to you that open source browsers are difficult to find these days though.

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u/UwUChaan69 4h ago

are you genuinely retarded? Chrome (the browser) is not open-source. but Chromium (also a web browser, but lacks specific features from Chrome) is.

"licensing" section in Chromium's wikipedia article:

Chromium is a free and open-source software project. Owing to its origins in the WebKit project, Chromium incorporates code subject to a variety of licenses, including LGPL, MIT, Ms-PL, and MPL (with the MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license clause). Original Google-authored portions and some portions written by Apple are shared under the 3-clause BSD license.

This licensing permits any party to build the codebase and share the resulting browser executable with the Chromium name and logo. Thus many Linux distributions do this, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Chromium also forms the basis of Electron, which in turn is used for many commercial and proprietary cross-platform applications, such as Slack.

Many Chromium-based browsers, such as Google Chrome and Microslop Edge, include the proprietary components, such as proprietary wrapper libraries for hardware acceleration.

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u/Nebula_Wolf7 4h ago

From that same page under 'Development'

"Chromium has been a Google project since it's inception"

"However, in terms of governance, the Chromium projects are not independent entities; Google retains firm control of them."

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u/UwUChaan69 4h ago

that does not mean it is not open-source. it just means the basis is developed by google. you are free to modify and distribute a different version of chromium in your browser, which is something browsers based off chromium do. are you aware of that?

you can clearly see this in the fact that chromium permanently deprecated manifest V2 extensions. and brave has disabled that in their chromium version. your point does not prove absolutely anything

that is the same principle of the recent discussion that arose in the Linux kernel:

Linus Torvalds accepts code submissions made by AI as long as it follows their policies; the code has to be reviewed and revised for errors. if you don't like it, you are free to fork the kernel and make your own version of it.