People who are involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t available under a unified open-source license. Here we explain why.

I know that many reject Vivaldi, because he is not entirely FOSS and only listed as Free-Proprietary, although I think that it is not at all fair to compare it for this with others in this category. The small part, about 5% of the code is obfuscated for good reasons. However, it does not prevent the user from modifying it to their liking and it is even encouraged by Vivaldi, but it does prevent large companies (Google) from making a fork of Vivaldi and thereby destroying this still small cooperative.

  • @onlooker
    1•3 years ago

    You do realize that you’re advocating a Blink-based browser, right? As in, the browser engine created and maintained by Google? And the browser wars are over, my friend. Google won.

    • @ZerushOP
      1•3 years ago

      Blink is a fork of the WebCore component of WebKit, which was originally a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. It’s currently the engine which best adapt to new webstandarts. Even FF is going to have to say goodbye sooner or later to Gecko, whose development is already reaching its limit. The Safari WebKit engine is only maintained by Apple’s stubbornness and there are no more more valid alternatives. With using Blink, the similarities and relations with Chrome in Vivaldi are over. As I say, test Vivaldi and say that Vivaldi is the same as other Chromium.