I really dont support people hating on opensource devs/organisations but i think they deserve some hate for this.
Soon, Linux Foundation would be the joke that FSF is, but with capitalist twist.
please don’t insult the FSF like that by comparing it to the LF…
The FSF might be unpragmatic and (thus) often horribly out of date, but it’s neither opportunistic nor engaged in corporate bootlickery.
At some times it can even be dogmatic, but you can at least mostly depend on it keepig it’s spine and vision!
(even if I partially disagree with it, as it’s doctrine does not take political economy — and thus the root problem that is capitalism — into account)They might have pure motives but I have to wonder just how useful that is realistically. The rest of the world does not seem keen on following in their spirit.
Are there any statistics on which projects the Linux Foundation spends how much on?
Their annual report for 2024 only lists “Project Support” with 64% ($193,704,610) of its expenses but doesn’t go into details which projects are supported by how much.
Why chromium?
Google pays the Linux Foundation a LOT of money.
It is the industry standard. Realisticly there isn’t anything else. You can’t easily decouple Gecko and Firefox plus most companies don’t want to rely on Mozilla.
Google sucks sometimes but at least they made Chromium into something modular and embeddable.
chromium is not and never has been open source
Isn’t that objectively a false statement?
no; it’s not open source; it’s closed source by google given window dressing to appear open source.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Google Chrome, which is a proprietary soft fork of Chromium?
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Can you explain further? I’ve never looked into this before, but I can seemingly find chromium’s source code on github, and on Google’s chromium site
I don’t think you understand what “open source” means then?
To put it simply: a programme using a license that guarantees certain freedoms.
Chromium uses such a license: the 3-Clause BSD license
One could argue that the BSD licence the chromium code is under has disadvantages in comparison to GPL, but saying outright “not open source” is just utter nonsense.
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