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It breaks my heart to know that Presto is going to most likely be left to bitrot in some SCM somewhere. But on the same note, I understand that using webkit wi
by Arelius 14y ago
It breaks my heart to know that Presto is going to most likely be left to bitrot in some SCM somewhere.
But on the same note, I understand that using webkit will be better for Opera as a browser.
- fpgeek 14y agoI wonder if Opera will consider open-sourcing it, or if it (typically) has too many problematic dependencies for that to be worthwhile.
- Arelius 14y agoConsidering they are switching to an open source rendering engine, I think there is likelihood they would have open-sourced presto already if that was possible. I suspect that like much proprietary software, there are too many licensed dependencies. It's a pity, because it'd be very cool to get a source dump of the final presto engine. Even if it was never integrated into a new browser, the historical value alone would be significant.
- rplnt 14y agoOpera's response to Open-Sourcing always was, that they would have no business that way. Apple doesn't care I believe, Google/Microsoft are in it for search and ads, Firefox isn't a business (and they make all money from search I think). While Opera makes a lot of money from search, they have a lot of OEM deals that they are afraid to lose. So if there was no legal constraint, Presto could see day of light. If nothing else, then in patches to webkit :)
- zanny 14y agoMozilla is absolutely a business, they are just non-profit.
- yread 14y agothat is probably the case. Do a opera:about and look at the list of Third Party Software...
- jarek-foksa 14y agoI can see almost exclusively Open Source libraries there, they are listing them because this what MIT/GPL/MPL licenses require.