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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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wakest likes your bugs ⁂Feb 25

@brucelawson why is Vivaldi not fully open source?

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Stephan Paternotte Feb 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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wakest likes your bugs ⁂Feb 25

@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.

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Stephan Paternotte Feb 25

@liaizon You asked a question. I supplied you a with a link to the answer from the company. This is what it is and this is what we have to do with. If you don't like it, then choose a different favourite webbrowser. No need to stir things up.

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wakest likes your bugs ⁂Feb 25

@S_Paternotte I dont think my opinion that Vivaldi should be open source and the fact that it isn't is a shame is stirring things up. I *am* using a different browser, I am using @zenbrowser which is an actively maintained floss fork of Firefox. I am friends with many people who use Vivaldi and I have used it for my daily driver for about a year a number of years ago.

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wakest likes your bugs ⁂

@S_Paternotte just because you supplied me with an answer to the company doesn't mean that "the job is done" and there is no more to it. If all the browsers used the arguments in that blogpost we would not have the web we do today.