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yes and they either become popular because of their usefulness and get organized like firefox/mozilla or they get co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified like chrome/chromium

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firefox is squarely in the “co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified”

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as has happened to almost all projects once they get a critical mass of users and presence in the ecosystem.

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Firefox/Mozilla as an example is a bit of a stretch, given the fact that Mozilla Browser/Firefox is originally based on the open-sourced version of Netscape Navigator

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very much a stretch, i was trying to relate the comment to current events and that was the closest thing i could come up with atm.

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Fair enough

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