Nemeski@lemm.ee to Firefox@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoOrbit by Mozillaorbitbymozilla.comexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down17
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minus-squaresuperkretlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoYou could switch to KMail, which is developed by the KDE community, organised in KDE e.V., an actual registered non-profit. Or Evolution, developed by the GNOME project, organised in the GNOME foundation, another registered non-profit.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThat said, GNOME has close ties to IMB/RedHat, so use that info however you see fit.
minus-squaresuperkretlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoEvery big open source project now has ties to one corporation or another. Linux isn’t a hobby project of a few hackers anymore.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoYup, but some, like Linux, has a good assortment of corporate backers, instead of one massive org. Pick your poison I guess, but at the end of the day, as long as it’s FOSS, it can be forked if necessary.
You could switch to KMail, which is developed by the KDE community, organised in KDE e.V., an actual registered non-profit.
Or Evolution, developed by the GNOME project, organised in the GNOME foundation, another registered non-profit.
That said, GNOME has close ties to IMB/RedHat, so use that info however you see fit.
Every big open source project now has ties to one corporation or another.
Linux isn’t a hobby project of a few hackers anymore.
Yup, but some, like Linux, has a good assortment of corporate backers, instead of one massive org.
Pick your poison I guess, but at the end of the day, as long as it’s FOSS, it can be forked if necessary.