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Google and Facebook have been terrible for open source on the whole despite their contributions to some projects. It is more difficult to run open source on yo
by hueving 9y ago
Google and Facebook have been terrible for open source on the whole despite their contributions to some projects.
It is more difficult to run open source on your handset than it is on your desktop/laptop/server and Google wants it that way to ensure you are sucked into their ecosystem of data collection. And handsets outnumber PCs. Google is directly participating in the destruction of open source computing at the consumer level while distracting us with contributions to a few projects.
Facebook is attempting to kill all open communication protocols and force everyone to communicate through their platform with powerful network effects. Anything they have done for open source is dwarfed by the decades they have set us back in open communication and privacy.