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		koolba on Nov 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Gi... What’s the risk? That Microsoft will disable the repo and prevent updates? Or that they’ll read the open source code published to the repo?

wredue on Nov 7, 2023 [–]

Well. One risk now is that Firefox will become a part of copilot, and thus its code will feed Microsoft browser development regardless.

This is not what open source is supposed to mean.

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