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How many times have you altered Firefox, though? Or Chromium? Or GIMP? Or any other large software project? Free as in freedom doesn't mean shit when codebases
by fao_ 5y ago
How many times have you altered Firefox, though? Or Chromium? Or GIMP? Or any other large software project?
Free as in freedom doesn't mean shit when codebases are so large as to be inscrutable and induplicable.
- userbinator 5y agoMeanwhile, people have been patching and modding Windows despite the lack of source code.
- blooalien 5y agoWhile I myself have only modified smaller codebases, modified forks of Firefox, Chromium, and GIMP (among many others) do in fact exist. Some of those forks have even gone on to become quite popular (although none yet as popular as their parent codebases).