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Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng... by MaxBarraclough on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:44AM (#17564933)
More to the point, it's closed-source.
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Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng... by drchaos on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:20AM (#17565067)
Not open source per OSI criteria, however they claim the source is available and can be inspected:

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/is-vivaldi-open-source/

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Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng... by MaxBarraclough on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:37AM (#17565120)
Interesting.

> This means that for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit.

Acid test: can I build it myself and expect to see identical binaries to what they ship?

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Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng... by JdeBP on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:05AM (#17565823)
Actually the acid test in this instance is whether, source in hand, you can prove https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17564964 wrong. (-:
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Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng... by MaxBarraclough on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:11PM (#17567681)
The ID-generation code should be inspectable, right?
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Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng... by adrianN on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:19AM (#17565544)
Can you do that with Firefox? Reproducible builds are pretty hard.
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Re:Vivaldi now includes Qwant, a privacy-focused search eng... by MaxBarraclough on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:25AM (#17565579)
Fair point. Of course, to a FOSS purist, it's still not good enough, as mere source-inspectibility isn't enough to qualify as OSI Open Source, or as FSF Free Software.
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