Closed source browsers are rare today, and even those are built on the open source browser cores.
Any browser that's not Chrome is rare today. I'm not sure pointing at Chrome as a well-managed open source project is a good idea. Although one can view the source, Google controls the codebase and development process with an iron hand. Any feature that is a good idea technically, but will hurt Google is a no-go to have merged.
I can't wait for the surge in cheap PCs available to buy and install Linux on. Please, Microsoft, lock down Windows more.
Meanwhile, poor Jellyfin just quietly doing the job.
That doesn't undermine my point, that proves my point. Making something "FREE" (as in libre) comes with the consequence that people can use it for whatever they want. I assume you don't agree with bombing Gaza, hence it is a perfect example of "freedom" leading to poor outcomes.
Yes. Open standards always win, given time. No one keeps paying for a closed standard, once the open (free!) one is just as good.
Like Gimp? Oh, wait that didn't take over. Well, at least Libreoffice is the standard office suite today, oh wait, that didn't take over. Well, Linux is the most used operating system at least. Whoops, except Android counts as that and it's increasingly locked down.
Simply grabbed it, and without contributing anything to the project did nothing except stripped the branding and then go sell it.
Unless this is specifically called out in the license, this is an activity allowed by many permissive open source licenses. If they knew that this type of activity was unwanted initially, then they didn't choose the proper license.
Easy, because they want the social credibility of being open source, but also later, when the project gets big, they want to dictate exactly who uses it and how.
If you care about how your software is used to this degree -- don't open source it! Every open source package I have ever made has come with a permissive license, because I want people to be able to use it however they wish. That's actual freedom. Unfortunately, a subset of "however they wish" can also be "used to bomb Gaza", but that is the cost of liberty and freedom. You have to take the good with the bad.
Be lucky you get a Linux port at all. Back in the old days there just wouldn't be one, no source or not. Between more commercial binaries available and with Wine cranking along, we have a larger choice than ever of software to run on Linux. I don't want to go back to the days when I just got a tarball and ran 'make'.
Is there anything, ever, that's trended towards more open?
Lemmy poster VICIOUSLY ACCUSES poster of BLASTING THEIR VOICE in a SCORCHING comment!
Mozilla has tried so many things: I wonder if anyone there has considered releasing and maintaining a browser. They might have some luck against Chrome.
I wish Trump would take some shrooms. It might make him more human.