15 Years of Forking
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15 Years of Forking
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#2Interesting I've never heard of waterfox before. Looks interesting!
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#3I love how "15 Years of Forking" is right next to "There is no Spoon" on the HN homepage right now :D
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#5Everyone starts out pure but then the lucre calls.
> Waterfox’s approach of allowing text ads on the default search partner page is our own decision for sustainability
"Sustainability" indeed.
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#6Everyone starts out pure but then the lucre calls. > Waterfox’s approach of allowing text ads on the default search partner page is our own decision for sustainability "Sustainability" indeed.
Did you read the same article as me? The word is singularly used in the context of how do you earn money as a project, i.e. sustain the effort. It's a bit of a leap to imply this is impure unless they made some contract stating the opposite or are doing something dark.
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#7Everyone starts out pure but then the lucre calls. > Waterfox’s approach of allowing text ads on the default search partner page is our own decision for sustainability "Sustainability" indeed.
You can however of course swap out the default Search Engine with Google or whatever privacy focused replacement (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Kagi, etc).
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#8Everyone starts out pure but then the lucre calls. > Waterfox’s approach of allowing text ads on the default search partner page is our own decision for sustainability "Sustainability" indeed.
You either die an open source project, or live long enough to see yourself become ad-driven in the name of sustainability.
Firefox has already done so to google, and when a fork is big enough, they certainly will hear the siren's call.
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#9Everyone starts out pure but then the lucre calls. > Waterfox’s approach of allowing text ads on the default search partner page is our own decision for sustainability "Sustainability" indeed.
Have you ever sent a donation to Alex?
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#10Everyone starts out pure but then the lucre calls. > Waterfox’s approach of allowing text ads on the default search partner page is our own decision for sustainability "Sustainability" indeed.
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