I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

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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