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minus-squarethingsiplay@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 hours agoGood example why you don’t want to use and rely on proprietary software (the extension is not 100% open source as I understand), if there are free (as in source code and license) alternatives.
minus-squarespacecadet@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 hours agoA professor once told me “don’t trust ‘free software’ from a megacorp”, most important thing I learned in college.
minus-squarevivendi@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 hours agoTechnically this shit isn’t even free (libre); atleast with corpo projects we can always fork them
Good example why you don’t want to use and rely on proprietary software (the extension is not 100% open source as I understand), if there are free (as in source code and license) alternatives.
A professor once told me “don’t trust ‘free software’ from a megacorp”, most important thing I learned in college.
Technically this shit isn’t even free (libre); atleast with corpo projects we can always fork them