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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

yes and they either become popular because of their usefulness and get organized like firefox/mozilla or they get co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified like chrome/chromium

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Firefox/Mozilla as an example is a bit of a stretch, given the fact that Mozilla Browser/Firefox is originally based on the open-sourced version of Netscape Navigator

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

very much a stretch, i was trying to relate the comment to current events and that was the closest thing i could come up with atm.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago
[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

firefox is squarely in the "co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified"

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

as has happened to almost all projects once they get a critical mass of users and presence in the ecosystem.