• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
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        16 days ago

        Its sponsorship only of an open source browser, with no telemetry, advertising, crypto, etc, etc built in.

        Sponsors get listed as sponsors, thats it.

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            16 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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              16 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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                16 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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                16 days ago

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

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