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Well, hello waterfox and librewolf (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] chaos@beehaw.org 10 points 4 days ago

I most associate it with Slashdot comments in the 2000's, complaining about Microsoft spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Linux and the GPL to scare companies into thinking that if they used Linux, they'd have to open source all their software, so yeah, definitely not just a cryptocurrency term.