this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
47 points (76.4% liked)
Firefox
17865 readers
14 users here now
A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The term open source includes the right to modify and distribute source code. Only being able to audit code is called source available.
https://opensource.org/osd/
Yes, Vivaldi is certainly not as closed as Chrome and is privacy respecting while Edge is the opposite. But if we're strictly talking about open source they aren't there. If they'd change the license to an open source one I'd probably given it a go a few years ago. Only being source available stopped me.