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Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 6 days ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Because if there is proprietary code that is compiled, but can't be read, it's hard to know if there is data harvesting that people can't opt out of. And proprietary code being added paves the way for more proprietary code. If this is an incorrect understanding, someone correct me.

I dont trust someone who has affiliate links in code to not be selling unique identifiers like ip adresses etc.