Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊Feb 24

RE: https://techhub.social/@keepandroidopen/116126023448256005

At Vivaldi, we believe you should be free to install the software you want on a device you own. This is as important for Android as it is for iOS, so we'e signed this letter to Google, along with friends.

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@brucelawson why is Vivaldi not fully open source?
Show threadStephan PaternotteFeb 25
@liaizon @brucelawson https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/
Why isn’t Vivaldi browser open-source? | Vivaldi Browser

People involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t fully open-source. In this post, we’ll explore and explain our position.

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@S_Paternotte @brucelawson impress how badly argued these takes are. All those things could be said about Chrome, and then you wouldn't have a Browser to release in the first place.
Show threadBruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊Feb 25
@liaizon Except Chrome isn't open source. @S_Paternotte
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@brucelawson @S_Paternotte I was using Chrome as shorthand but yes I should have said Chromium. but they are very close but I think you probably get the point regardless
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@brucelawson seeing you are cofounder of OWA feel free to disregard my lowly opinion. OWA is doing amazing work and very happy it exists so thank you for that. I really like Vivaldi and only ranting about the floss issue here cause it feels like a regression if I were to switch back to it for the sole issue of its weird stance on floss
Show threadBruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊Feb 25
@liaizon You've every right to your opinion! But the difference between Chrome and Chromium matters; I suspect the latter is open-source because it forked webkit, which in turn was derived from KHTML. And, like Google, we (and many others) build proprietary stuff on top of it.