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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We need a truly FOSS browser that developed and maintained by the community. Librewolf isn’t it unless it fully forks away from Mozilla. We need a new engine and we just don’t have one yet.

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  • negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ladybird Browser is coming, but could be a couple years still

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      BSD licensed

      Ew. It ought to be AGPLv3.

      (I almost just said “copyleft,” but as Chromium proves, even LGPL is insufficient protection from corporate usurpation.)

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      • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Truly; it’s shocking how much people are still clinging to permissive licensing in the middle of everything going on.

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    • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Backed by Shopify, huh? Bet they wish that wasn’t the case, given recent events.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The web platform is huge… It’s going to take a long time to reach parity with other browsers.

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sounds like a job for JoMiran! Rooting for you!

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I agree. I’d even be willing to regularly donate to a foundation that would have this aim as their goal and have their acts matching their promises.

    Although, not necessarily a new engine. Going from scratch is a good way to remake a lot of mistakes, while reusing old code is a good way to keep old debt. That’s not a decision I would like to have to take.

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  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why a new engine, Firefox is open source?!

    Fork Firefox.

    But good luck funding a team to keep up with commercial companies’ pace. It needs funding.

    If Mozilla made a way to donate in a way that I KNEW it would go towards the maintenance of the browser, and not another crappy thing they’re trying to be profitable, I’d donate in a second. I spend about £30/month on OSS donations and I’d happily add £5/month to Mozilla if I trusted them not to misspend it.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But good luck funding a team to keep up with commercial companies’ pace.

      You answered the question yourself. The worry is that without a hard fork that is fully maintained we’ll continue to have a dependence on Mozilla. It doesn’t need to be a new engine, but it does need to be an independent one.

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• MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s almost like this not-for-profit, for-profit subsidiary thing is a cancer (or at least, my selection bias of late thinks so).

  Can someone ELI5 why a foundation can’t develop these products directly, with a for-profit subsidiary? Is there something forbidden about rasing revenue for a not-for-profit via product sales? Would this even fix anything?

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