• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
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    20 days ago

    So when they do just fork it?

    I likely won’t touch it anyway, but it is fully open source, so it can be forked easily. With the transition to Swift I suspect there would be plenty of devs who could take things forward if they wanted to.

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      20 days ago

      If you look at history, Google did the opposite with Chrome, they forked an open source browser and turned it into the world’s most used.
      I guess we’ll see.

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        20 days ago

        Thats google though, with the added ability to put it direct into an extremely common OS (Android). With ladybird, you’ve got an apparent neocon and 3 years currently planned for a GA release (2028). Its future is already pretty uncertain regardless of sponsorship.

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        20 days ago

        Iridium, cromite, edge, brave, thorium, vivaldi, pale moon…

        And this is a drastically simpler browser that would be in swift 6.