Spyke
lemmy.nz

How do you decide the country?

E.g. Opera browser is headquartered in Norway, but the Opera company that develops the browser was bought by a Chinese billionaire a few years back.

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fingolasreply
lemmy.world

I'd say, it's the country, that has a deciding influence on the development of a software. Because it sets the rules that the team has to follow. That should be mainly the country, where the responsible organisation has its seat.

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Davereply
lemmy.nz

Yeah I guess the country isn't enough on it's own. It's worth knowing when something is owned by some billionaire regardless of what country it is.

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Yes, maybe open vs. closed source is the better comparison. I will make one for this, too. But first I want to polish this one. I like the flags 😉

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Every category has an extra flag for lesser known/used options. But I happily add suggestions..

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feddit.org

Matrix is listed as USA? Can someone explain that?

Also not listing OpenSuse? for shame.

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Exactly as the flag shows.

Another one for open vs. closed source is on my ToDo-list.

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Babalugatsreply
feddit.uk

Matrix is listed as USA? Can someone explain that?

It has been edited/fixed already (fairly quickly)

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macnielreply
feddit.org

strange, or I was blinded by it being flanked by USAian flags (and the colours are the same.)

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Babalugatsreply
feddit.uk

I'd say OP changed it. It seems to be their project.

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fingolasreply
lemmy.world

Yes, it's my project. But I didn't change it, the flag was always the british one. I was a bit worried, but this time, I didn't make a mistake.

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I didn't see it initially, so I just assumed the other poster was correct (along with the other comments). Either way, it is undeniably correct now.

Good luck with the project, I would guess that it is going to be huge to maintain.

A few other phone OS's mentioned in this thread - It is in Buy European, but not all are European, It's mainly to help people move away from big tech on their phones.

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SUSE (the company backing the community-sponsored project) went public iirc, and is owned by the Swedish private equity firm EQT AB. That firm was considering to sell it.

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