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by efilife 710 days ago
Imagine if ladybird gets used regularly by ~1000 nerds, which is its current audience, then gets forked by microsoft and the current ME gets replaced by ladybird. Even if ladybird got over 9000 users, there's no competing with megacorps.

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paddim8 710 days ago
Well maybe they're ok with that? They want browser diversity. Getting Microsoft to use a new engine is better for diversity than if they just used chromium like now.
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bayindirh 710 days ago
Getting Microsoft to use a new engine and contribute back to the original repository is better for diversity, but forking and running away with it is certainly not.
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r3trohack3r 710 days ago
> Forking and running away with it is certainly not

If your goal is browser diversity, this would take an ecosystem of 2 browser engines and turn it into an ecosystem of 4. That seems in-line with the goal of browser diversity.

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bayindirh 710 days ago
Currently we have an ecosystem of two browser engines, yes. One of them is weaponized against users by its designers, both in its open and closed form.

Having 4 (or 3.5 more realistically) browser engines where 2 of them weaponized against its users doesn't change things.

Instead, we should have 3 (or 2.5) browser engines where only one of them is (and can be) weaponized against its users. This is what brings diversity and change.

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beretguy 710 days ago
> Getting Microsoft to use a new engine and contribute back to the original repository is better for diversity

Oh no no no. We don't need microsoft contributing anything into this. They will mess up everything and push their agenda.

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bayindirh 710 days ago
Ideally, yes. Microsoft should stay away from this, but I wanted to highlight that adopting a technology doesn't automatically make it better for diversity.

Google was almost killing Go overnight because they wanted more user data from people using the language.

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rice7th 710 days ago
Sorry for my grammatical mistake, English is not my first language.

That said, my point here was that realistically no company is going to fork ladybird since there's already chromium, plus even if ladybird was somehow forked by let's say microsoft and got popular, I don't think it would be detrimental to ladybird itself, if not even beneficial, since it would attract more users and, to a lesser extent, more contributors.

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