My Tech Origin
fingolas.eu
Find out where your software comes from — and share it.

A simple site, where you can select the software you use, and it creates a ready-to-copy text showing their origin that you can post where you want.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
    7·
    3 天前

    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.

    • fingolas@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 天前

      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.

      • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
        2·
        3 天前

        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.

        • fingolas@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          3 天前

          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 😉

    • fingolas@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 天前

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

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 天前

    Matrix is listed as USA? Can someone explain that?

    Also not listing OpenSuse? for shame.

    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 天前

      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.

    • Babalugats@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      3 天前

      Matrix is listed as USA? Can someone explain that?

      It has been edited/fixed already

      • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 天前

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

          • fingolas@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            3 天前

            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.

            • Babalugats@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              3 天前

              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.