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They were working on that years ago. After several decades with no success I think they've mostly given up and just profit from it now.
What? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40693451 In what way do they directly profit from piracy?
There are more indirect ways, but that is certainly the direct way they financially profit.
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I don’t maintain any particularly important software, but I would be extremely happy to know that code I wrote is used in major products everyone uses; so, I prefer to use licenses that minimize the burdens on users. Also, I don’t think intellectual property is real and so I don’t think I can make demands on the users of my code: it seems to me that there’s an implicit contradiction in the GPL between the FSF’s anti-…
I believe in the simple golden rule, you give back to society what society has given back to you. Just like all others who gave back their changes, I trust any corporation should have no difficulty, since they are using the product of thousands of man hours for free. Not a single dollar is required, only the source code of any new changes made. Secondly, my game theoretic argument. Lets say a powerful corpo takes you…
Yes, this is implied by my view that IP is a fiction
Just remember, https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814#issuecommen...
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c++ isn't memory safe and will probably never be. that being said, it's not more or less possible to create an efficient browser engine for multicore systems with c++ than any other language. programming language is not the thing that makes the task difficult.
As I said, I'm pretty out of practice, but doesn't stuff like unique_ptr give you a lot of memory-safe features out of the box?
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How does ladybird compare to Servo? https://servo.org/
Servo is just the engine at this point. Ladybird has the whole thing.