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		wolverine876 on June 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Add-on support in new Firefox for Android (2021) > if California would stay in California, that would be great Then you wouldn't have most of the IT industry and especially FOSS.

yeetsfromhellL2 on June 28, 2022 [–]

>especially FOSS.

I just wanted to log in and point out that Free Software got started at MIT.

wolverine876 on June 28, 2022 | [–]

That did cross my mind as I wrote the GP, but the center of it has been and is CA.

sph on June 29, 2022 | | [–]

Europe: am I a joke to you?

FOSS might've been born in the US but it's not a US only phenomenon these days, let alone Californian.

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