Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it's bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a
    • gigachad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Is Orion open-source?

      We’re working on it! We’ve begun with some of our components and intend to open more in the future.

      Forking WebKit, porting hundreds of APIs and writing a browser app from scratch has been challenging for our small team. Properly maintaining an open-source project takes time and resources we’re short on at the moment, so if you want to contribute at this time, please consider becoming active on orionfeedback.org.

      Let’s see…

      • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Properly maintaining an open-source project takes time and resources

        But why not make it source available? They most likely already use git, so they just need to port it to github. Its not like they would need to review a bunch of merge requests, since they are source available only.

      • Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        pretty sure it’s like all those projects that say that and never do it, iirc they’ve had that thing in their faq for years

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    “The saying goes “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” —unless open-source, I tend to add if I hear someone say it! Alas, Mozilla’s recent faux-pas suggests that even noble projects aren’t immune to the shiny glint of ick.”

    …I don’t know if we should embrace proprietary like that just because “firefox did it”.