| > I'm assuming the people who are asking for Orion to be open source are not paying for it. I don't know about the others, but I'm an Orion+ lifetime purchaser just because I like what they are trying to do and it's a good phone browser for my work phone. I'm not sure I follow why specifically people who pay are supposed to be uninterested in it being open sourced? > If you like Kagi and Orion, supporting development by paying for it makes sense. > Open sourcing everything of Orion means that Orion+ will be open source which defeats the point of supporting development of Orion directly. Sure, one should support the development costs. Can you elaborate why you feel that relates to Orion being freeware vs open source or why it defeats the point of Orion+? The two aren't differentiated by functionality, Orion+ is a token of development support. > I've seen projects start open source, change to closed source and then add in the enshittification later. It doesn't matter if the code is 'open' the source code would eventually be unmaintained and have security holes which there is no time in the world for anyone else to maintain. Open source isn't a promise that the code will be maintained forever, nothing can guarantee that, it's a promise if the company decides to go closed source the community can decide what to do. Or, even if you don't care about that, a promise of easy/public auditing and hacking. Just look how many Chromium/Firefox build customization, UI tweaks, and forks people have made despite the possibility Google stop contributing to Chromium in the future. |