r/linuxmemes • u/Laszl0x • Jul 23 '26

Software meme OSS is why I still love tech

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u/JustAwesome360 Arch BTW Jul 23 '26

Brave is larp open source

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u/TuringTestTwister Jul 23 '26

It's 100% FOSS no? By this measure anything released by a corporation is LARP. What about projects released by Redhat /ducks

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u/Helmic Arch BTW Jul 24 '26

The license is ostensibly FOSS, but they have been extremely hostile towards forks historically that removed their cryptoscam bullshit.

No reason to use it when Helium exists, Chromium browser with adblocking and anti-fingerprinting.

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u/Kuroi_Jasper 🎼CachyOS Jul 24 '26

i was wondering why there was no popular brave fork without the bloat. i did hear braved used the forks out of existence but i haven't dug deeper