chromium is not opensource...
See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=451248#c17 …
Basically closing a bug with "wontfix" because a platform is *NOT SUPPORTED* is *NOT* how opensource works.
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I'm confused. Are you saying that the maintainers of open-source software don't get to decide which platforms their software will support? 1/3
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If somebody wants to fork the software to add support for a platform the other maintainers don't want to support, they can do that. 2/3
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But "open-source" doesn't mean "you must support every platform, accept every bug report as valid, and merge every PR." 3/3
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We don't ask them to go out of their way to support things... it's just one example among many, downright hostile to anything that's not in their plan.
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Which, again, doesn't mean that "chromium is not opensource." I am sympathetic to your concerns but I don't think they justify weaponizing the term "opensource" in a disingenuous way.
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well it's certainly against the spirit of opensource. making your code available to others improve the code for their own use-cases. it's not like the BSD community has been asking google^H^Hchrome to make huge incompatible changes here, they aren't accepting patches.
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The only thing required for something to be "opensource" is in the name. As I said above, it doesn't mean "must accept every patch." If you don't understand why a project maintainer might reject some patches, then you understand opensource less than you think you do.
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There is the letter and there is the spirit. One large problem with big corporations is that they don't play ball. They benefit from all the work thrown into opensource projects (I'm sure google uses ssh, for instance, among other things), but they don't always cooperate.
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> (I'm sure google uses ssh, for instance, among other things), but they don't always cooperate. Google literally hired djm and pay him to work on OpenSSH. I'm extremely confused by what you consider to be cooperating vs. benefiting.
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At some point, when people put a lot of effort into making your tools work on a given OS, you stop saying it's "not supported" and you let a few things get integrated. Chromium fully supports pledge on OpenBSD for instance, but it's definitely not in the upstream version.
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No one here disagrees that Google is obnoxious not to accept patches to support OpenBSD better. All I objected to was your and others' insistence that because they don't, they're "not opensource." Maybe just admit that's wrong rather than repeatedly trying to change the subject?
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