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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project by vesinisa on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:01AM (#32810382)
And funnily enough, this is exactly how Linux was born. It was literally started as "just a hobby, won't be big and professional."[1]

Nowadays it runs in almost every home at least in the developed world.

[1]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html

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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:26PM (#32812676)
Linux was inevitable as there was no GNU licensed kernel anger there was a need for one. If not Linux, something else would have emerged within months.

New browser is not inevitable, as the need for free-ish browser is already satisfied.

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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project by voidskull on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:05PM (#32813238)
Hurd was in development and it still is I guess. Hurd was a predecessor of Linux
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Re:Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:32AM (#32820953)
Hurd stalled precisely because Linux appeared: there was an urgent need for a GNU kernel, but there was no urgent need for another GNU kernel.
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