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> closed-source Aaaand I'm out. Still not over Opera abandoning presto. With open source there's at least a chance it can be continued by someone else.
by iforgotpassword 5y ago
> closed-source
Aaaand I'm out. Still not over Opera abandoning presto. With open source there's at least a chance it can be continued by someone else.
- jefftk 5y agoI would also prefer to see it be open source, but I think in this context that's not the point? My parent was saying that they do not expect to see new browsers from scratch, and this is one. Aside: you could make the argument that both Chrome and Safari are only open source because they were not built from scratch.
- Fnoord 5y agoIf they weren't based on FOSS we would all be running Firefox and Opera now, not MSIE (Firefox was popular on desktop before Chrome existed, as was Opera on mobile). Or perhaps they'd have forked Firefox/Gecko instead, or collaborated the effort with these projects. Safari and Chrome are merely a wheel in the larger ecosystem of Apple and Google, a means to an end.