I honestly had no idea Brave was an open source. Why is it being so heavily criticized on HN ( from what I saw whenever it comes up )?
It's Chromium-based, so using it supports Google's dominance over the web.
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#42A much better website is https://alternativeto.net Really great crowd-sourced recommendations with useful reviews. Though while AlternativeTo allows filtering by open-source status, it doesn't do so by license.
huh, I had assumed they were the same folks. Thanks for pointing that out, the name is pretty close.
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#43Brave is listed there as an open source alternative to Firefox (as well as Chrome and Edge). But isn't Firefox (which itself is not listed on this website) open source as well or am I missing something?
Perhaps this goes back to the logo having copyright (not Creative Commons) which is why IceWeasel and IceCat were created.
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No, dang says they don't work well, which is not the same thing. Remove the "author=dang" and you can see that it's not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else.
Remove the "author=dang" Then they wouldn't be mod comments. not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else. This is unsurprising given other people rarely if ever publicly moderate HN.
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GitLab Community Edition is MIT licensed. I don't know that it gets much more open source than that. I've survived at very very large companies on CE, never needing any of the paid features.
The existence of paid features at all is exactly what makes it open core.
So if a company sells any closed source software, you don’t count any of their open source software as legitimate?
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#47I have also been building something similar at https://ossdatabase.com Recently released code under AGPL-3.( https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase ) But I want to go beyond aggregation and add following things - User reviews, ratings - Researcherd guides comparing features in most common usecases - Interviews with Opensource maintainers, founders. - Being able to create collections like awesome lists - Everything…
This looks beautiful. Are the alternatives simply listed in order by their GitHub stars? How do you handle projects hosted on Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc. Surely it wouldn't be fair to do a 1-1 comparison, right?
Have you looked at alternatives to your site like AlternativeTo and LibHunt? Do you plan on using any of that data as well or perhaps even linking to pages on those relevant sites? Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but I feel like being able to take advantage of the work already done by those platforms in some way could be a big step towards setting you apart. Just saying as someone who uses/contributes to AlternativeTo a lot
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#48Very helpful. Thanks!
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The existence of paid features at all is exactly what makes it open core.
So if a company sells any closed source software, you don’t count any of their open source software as legitimate?
Not necessarily. The key is whether the closed-source software is an extension to the open-source software or something completely unrelated to it.
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#50As others point out, there are a few of these alternatives that are a little off. They're not wrong as such, it's just not the complete picture.
Grafana is listed as an New Relic alternative, but if you ever used New Relic to do application monitoring on a Python application I think you would be disappointed. There's a huge difference in being able to view and navigate collected metrics and then just having an agent collect everything and UI that will allow you to pin point exactly where your code is slow.