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Thanks for the links! I think their wording on why they don't want to open source the project is quite slimy when it just requires them to give ship users the source code tarballs alongside the binaries.
Well it's unlikely a company would support every possible system in the world. The best one can do is using something like static linking/flatpak/nix. But that means not using shared libraries which can make software start slower. This would bother me for a daily-driver browser. I guess it does not bother nix users like you but I was thinking they would be potentially missing out on some Linux users. Maybe it isn't really a significant portion that would care.
I guess I would be too but in the context of their offerings, it's kinda off-putting for me.