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by toastal 1478 days ago
Did you mean link to the source code? GitHub shouldn't be equated with open source—especially considering the core product, GitHub, is closed source.
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Mozilla heavily uses GitHub to host repositories for basically all of their projects (with possibly just the exception of Firefox itself). Anyone familiar with Mozilla’s open source efforts knows they use GitHub heavily, so stating that I didn’t see the source on their preferred platform is perfectly reasonable.

Your comment is pedantic and unhelpful. It is effectively the same as overhearing someone asking another person for a Kleenex, then choosing to interject and lecture that person on the difference between Kleenex and tissue paper when the other person does have actual Kleenex-brand tissue. Yes, I know what open source is. Yes, Mozilla uses GitHub. I even provided links to relevant GitHub repositories by Mozilla once I found what I was looking for.