• gigachad@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours 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…

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        8 hours 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

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    “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”.