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    All from Google Code (Chromium, Chromium OS, Android, irbase, etc…) and alot of third parties which include APIs from Google, Facebook and the other mencioned. Well, as FOSS you can all of these gut and fork, but if not, the are not more private and secure as any other proprietary soft. You can take a look also on the over 6200 Microsoft Open Source repositories in GitHub (also from MS), eg Docker, LinuxTracepoints, Live-share…

    https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/repositories?type=all

    Or in the Open Source repositories from Zuckerbot (eg. React)

    https://opensource.fb.com

    Also Amazon

    https://aws.amazon.com/en/opensource/

    Most trustworth those from the NASA, but most very specific apps. Maybe Worldwind as alternative to Google Earth.

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        i know, because off this I named what is FOSS and what is OSS. But even FOSS, when it include APIs, also FOSS, from Big Brothers, it isn’t really FOSS, it’s only because the traditional definition, same for “Open” Source as such. This is because I said that the traditional definition need a revision.

        https://miloslav.website/blog/2020/10/26/firefox-privacy/

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            No, but eg, Chromium has a BSD 3 license, that means simplified do what you fucking want with it at your own risk, exept if you want to put the original Chromium author on your shabby fork or derivated products, you need a permission to do it. Even Gecko has a more restrictive license (MIT, also very liberal but need copyright mencion if you use it)

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            People are running Microsoft VsCode deploying via Microsoft github to Vercel or Render, and consider themselves an open source advocate