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Script to install Brave and Vivaldi variants on Fedora Atomic (github.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Easily install your favourite browsers on Fedora Atomic Desktops, Silverblue, Kinoite, uBlue, Bazzite, Aurora, Bluefin, Secureblue etc.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am not aware of any definition of closed source published by OSI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Since it is source available, it isnt open source and therefore closed source.

Edit: we obviously have different definitions. I did not mean to argue over semantics. I would personally never trust a browser with proprietary code, even it is source available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fair enough. Yeah, I never thought of open and closed source as two exclusive options, but two of many.

I myself publish an application which isn't open source, but I publish the source code, as I believe my users have the right to know what runs on their computer, and have the freedom to audit, modify, and compile their own builds if they so wish. But I don't want someone to take and resell my application. I have yet to encounter someone calling my app closed source, but I can see how someone could.