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Well, more power to them then! Ernest can then merge back the changes at his own pace, so everybody wins. Forks don’t need to be treated with hostility.

The answer is “currently no”, and that might change. Just like with jaywalking.

Originally jaywalking also wasn’t a ticketable offense. Do you know the origin of this term? That’s the parent poster’s point.

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Ah yes, let me sideload a 3rd party web browser onto my PC.

I’m pretty sure the same operation without Git (or another VCS) would be infinitely more troublesome, not less.

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So it’s really a slippery slope of customer rights!

Fair enough, let me rephrase. I’m willing to negotiate about ads, the exact boundaries yet to be discussed. My privacy and my data are absolutely off limits, especially if they’re gonna pretend it’s not even about these.

I’d be fine with ads, but Google’s policy is only superficially about ads. They want surveillance and user profiling, not ads. Ads are just a way to deliver these. Over my dead body.

Or he’s just a scapegoat to recover some reputation and try again later.

He may have made a mistake but his heart seems to be in the right place. Even if not before, it is now. His stance is commendable. Let’s allow people to get better than they were before.

Emacs is more like a runtime for many smaller programs doing all these things, with common way for them to talk to each other. It’s closer to Java than to Facebook.

Your take would be acceptable if a perfectly viable alternative like Firefox didn’t exist. Since it does, how about you STFU?

The commit history is trivial to rewrite.

Not if it’s them that need to communicate with me.

While it was possible to force Nightly to accept the other addons, it was a hidden developer option (not present in the regular Firefox). From the regular user’s perspective it was still a hassle.

I loathe the very fact they made people call it “sideloading”. It’s just installing on your own terms, like it used to be the norm.

No, keep the child processes away from him!

Safari is its own thing, but so is Mozilla. It affects everyone, it affects the very landscape of the web.