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Digital-Citizen | 7 years ago

Firefox has been and continues to be libre in the sense of software freedom -- free to run, inspect, share, and modify. Anyone who complains about how Mozilla runs their variant of Firefox should thank Mozilla for that licensing choice so that with other people's hard work, the world has multiple variants to choose from all of which are also free software (as far as I know).

You won't see such improvements for non-free (proprietary) software because it wouldn't be legal to prepare or distribute them and because modifying binaries is remarkably difficult. Any improvements the proprietor distributes are untrustworthy unless they are freed. I think it's great that software freedom exists and that people are willing and able to distribute variants that serve their needs.

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intika|7 years ago

True, and a nice reminder :)