[drnick1]

This is good news, but I am confused by the following:

"""

Brave Origin is:

1/ new, optional, separate build (stripped down, no telemetry/rewards/wallet/vpn/ai);

2/ free on Linux, one time buy elsewhere.

"""

So the stripped down version (at least the non-Linux one) will not be open source?

[dfajgljsldkjag]

Open source software can be sold for money. For example redhat selling cds with rhel on them, for quite a big sticker price. Free if you build it yourself but you have to pay to get a ready to use version.

[chii]

or figure out how to build it yourself from source. But you can count on the lazy tax - esp. for windows (as building from source on linux is likely to be much more convenient).

[HPsquared]

Maybe that's why it is free on Linux!

[pxc]

open-source ≠ gratis binaries

Rules that require the distribution of source code don't require the distribution of binaries.

[WackyFighter]

That seems pretty reasonable proposition IMO.

As other people have mentioned you can resell open source software. I have a big box Linux distro on my shelf here.

[johnebgd]

I’d pay a monthly fee for a browser where I’m not the product anymore and it respects my privacy.