• BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      When that source, open or otherwise, is unilaterally controlled by Google, that doesn’t really mean much

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        No, it’s not. It’s open source and can be modified from Google’s baseline to be free of their restrictions by anyone who cares to put in the work, like Brave and Vivaldi.

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          Are people able to make meaningful contributions to the project upstream to steer the direction of the web as an open platform?