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Re:I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL by nottorp on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:37AM (#40561279)
> and the project is well funded by large investors.

Hmm, why is there no mention of that in the splitting announcement?

Did said large investors trigger the drop of SerenityOS because they don't want to waste their resources on a niche hobby platform?

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Re:I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL by awesomekling on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:52AM (#40561369)
Ladybird does not have investors, only sponsors/donors. We have received some really generous donations in the past, for example $100,000 from Shopify in 2023 which allowed me to hire a few of our contributors to work full time on the project. :)

Sponsors have no direct influence over the project, but I obviously feel a strong moral obligation to put 100% of the funds towards improving Ladybird and nothing else.

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Re:I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL by nottorp on Monday June 03, 2024 @07:03AM (#40561437)
100k is not "well funded by large investors" anyway :)
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Re:I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL by lukan on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:21AM (#40562894)
Sadly it is, when we are talking about independent open source projects.
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Re:I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL by ykonstant on Monday June 03, 2024 @03:59PM (#40566869)
That could fund my research for 5 years :(
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Re:I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL by nottorp on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @04:37AM (#40572064)
Yeah but one person working 5 years or 5 persons working 1 year isn't likely to be enough to make a modern browser that is feature complete enough to be able to replace the likes of Firefox, Chrome etc.
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Re:I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL by 1GZ0 on Monday June 03, 2024 @08:04AM (#40561849)
Apologies, I did mean "well sponsored" not well funded, my mistake :') You're doing awesome work and I'm really excited for you and the project! All the best :)
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