• GadgeteerZA
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    73 years ago

    I just wish they were fully open sourced. I did not like their comment about “but it is because someone may take and re-use their code” because in fact they took open source Chromium and re-used that. They are basically accusing others of doing that they did… Same as MS Edge.

    Aside from that, I do love what they did with the UI etc. I’d love to have seen vertical side tabs on all browsers.

    • @ZerushOP
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      3 years ago

      I think that OpenSource is fine in a new product but in view of almost a hundred browsers from which you can choose, more than 70 of others already discontinued, it is already quite irrelevant if it is OSS or not, other criteria prevail, especially in a small team (a cooperative) that wants to impose itself in a fairly saturated market and survive against the big ones that already dominate this genre. Publishing the code that makes Vivaldi special would be its end, because Google, Edge, Opera and others will soon fork it. A similar mistake was already made in times of the old Opera, when it was bought by a Chinese company, which completely distorted it. For Vivaldi the first interest are the rights of the user and also actively fights against the practice of user surveillance by large companies, including Mozilla, so I think that also the Linux cominities know how to appreciate it and this is why Manjaro is already the second Distro that Vivaldi adopts as a default browser, after FerenOS. Others are sure to continue to do this, because of the rising descontent against Mozilla.