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Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by donkeybeer »

hamandcheese wrote: post #424
guappa wrote: post #216

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Just so you know, chromium exists now as an open source project because KDE developers used GPL.

Its a good thing the GPL stopped google from taking it and running with it!

"Hey we had a security breach!"

"Ah that means we must remove all security protections, instead of you know further strengthening security."

If older GPL failed, this means we needed a stronger license...such as AGPL, or in future something even better, instead of giving up and saying we should have just given them shit on a platter.

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by nprateem »

looneysquash wrote: post #557

I don't get what this has that Servo doesn't. Or what Firefox is doing wrong. Or what sets this apart from existing browsers, besides the funding model. As a end user, what should I be excited about? As a developer, what should I be excited about?

Why is no one else asking this?

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Post by networked »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #549
networked wrote: post #102

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I have two questions, if you don't mind. 1. Legacy hardware support. Is it a goal for Ladybird to build for 32-bit and big-endian CPUs out of the repository? 2. Electron. Do you have any plans to work on an Electron alternative based on Ladybird further down the line? No free Electron alternative other than Sciter seems to use the same browser engine on all platforms. There may be value in one that implements the lat…

Big endian isn't "legacy", modern POWER is perfectly good. (It's niche , granted)

I thought someone might would take issue with it. :-) I didn't qualify "legacy" for succinctness and because I have a sense Power ISA users prefer ppc64le.

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by sph »

awesomekling wrote: post #5

Hello friends, Ladybird founder here! Here's a short video from Chris Wanstrath announcing our non-profit yesterday, and kicking things off with a $1M donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k Happy to answer questions :)

Bravo Andreas, and thanks for working on keeping the Internet neutral. It's a thankless, titanic effort against the Goliaths that want to make it their playground, and us their loyal subjects.

Can't wait for the day I can drop Firefox and use Ladybird full time.

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Post by sph »

account42 wrote: post #190
awesomekling wrote: post #5

Hello friends, Ladybird founder here! Here's a short video from Chris Wanstrath announcing our non-profit yesterday, and kicking things off with a $1M donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k Happy to answer questions :)

Seeing someone ignore the naysayers and attempt the so-called impossible task of developing a new independent browser is awesome to see. It brings a glimmer of hope that the internet is not doomed to be ruled by advertising companies with only a stagnant controlled opposition browser as the alternative. That said, Ladybird is obviously far from becoming the daily driver for the average webizen. What do you think is g…

> Seeing someone ignore the naysayers and attempt the so-called impossible task of developing a new independent browser is awesome to see

According to Hacker News readers, the ladybird shouldn't be able to compete in the browser space. It's too difficult, the spec is too large, its competitors have large pockets. The ladybird tries anyway, because ladybirds don't care about what HN readers think.

Inspired by https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/823379-according-to-all-kno...

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Post by sph »

fabrice_d wrote: post #572
orsorna wrote: post #551

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After reading your comment I went over to the Github but failed to find the PR you described. Perhaps you can locate it? I did find this: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pull/366/files Do you think PRs like this carry an appropriate tone that demands they be addressed and merged?

See https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814 There's not much grace to find in the response of awesomekling in this PR.

Don't you guys have anything better to do? You know, write code, instead of bothering people about nonsense like this, getting offended and crying on the fediverse?

What the hell happened to people?

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Post by phyzome »

sph wrote: post #656
awesomekling wrote: post #5

Hello friends, Ladybird founder here! Here's a short video from Chris Wanstrath announcing our non-profit yesterday, and kicking things off with a $1M donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k Happy to answer questions :)

Bravo Andreas, and thanks for working on keeping the Internet neutral. It's a thankless, titanic effort against the Goliaths that want to make it their playground, and us their loyal subjects. Can't wait for the day I can drop Firefox and use Ladybird full time.

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Post by sleepycatgirl »

koito17 wrote: post #616
cratermoon wrote: post #585

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The drama: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/master/CONT... and this comment from awesomekling on their SerenityOS project https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

I think Kling's response to the PR is unprofessional. However, there is no reason to start spamming the issue, after three years. Is that the drama? My conclusion is to continue avoiding sites like X and the so-called "Fediverse".

Ehhh, fediverse is much comfy place. Not without its flaws, but nonetheless comfy. Anyhow, Judging a big place from the actions of few... not exactly reasonable to be honest.

But yeah,I think, it resurfaced, partially to recent, well, Ladybird stuff. Things got on the track, and the train went forward...

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