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minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·4 days agoI always see the same developing browsers is hard sentiment. But if it’s not true, why hasn’t a completely free open source volunteer team created a popular usable browser yet?
minus-squareMonstrosity@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·4 days agoThere are other open source browsers/engines. Aside from that, Imo, it’s not cheap to do what Mozilla is doing, but 1/2 billion annually is probably more than enough. I believe thar be grifting in them waters.
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agoI mean, all those WebKit browsers are descended from Konqueror, which was free and open source. But those were different times.
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoThat’s happening right now: https://ladybird.org/
I always see the same developing browsers is hard sentiment. But if it’s not true, why hasn’t a completely free open source volunteer team created a popular usable browser yet?
There are other open source browsers/engines.
Aside from that, Imo, it’s not cheap to do what Mozilla is doing, but 1/2 billion annually is probably more than enough.
I believe thar be grifting in them waters.
I mean, all those WebKit browsers are descended from Konqueror, which was free and open source. But those were different times.
That’s happening right now: https://ladybird.org/