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0 pointsyunohn2y ago0 comments

Google impacts infinitely more lives than KDE does…

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mcherm2y ago· 1 in thread

I think your math is wrong.

If (as was stated) Google's Chrome is based on KDE, than any user of Google Chrome is necessarily impacted by KDE. Meanwhile there could in theory be some user of KDE who has never used Chrome.

So the set of lives affected by KDE is the same or larger than the set affected by Chrome.

Kwpolska2y ago

Your argument works only if we consider being affected by something to be very broadly applicable and unconditionally transitive. Someone who uses Chrome from version 100 onwards might be using something with traces of KDE code, but those traces are probably so small after all these years and forks that I wouldn't count them.

stephenr2y ago

This is very true.

KDE never ran any PII data collection programs targeting 70% of browser users, for the sake of selling ads.

Oh you meant impacts positively? No. Chrome is a blight on humanity.

fidotron2y ago

Yeah they made v8 which beget node and npm.

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