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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by twiss on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:16AM (#43856671)
Depending on how you define "global", https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund might qualify:

> With the Sovereign Tech Fund, we invest globally in the open software components that underpin Germany's and Europe's competitiveness and ability to innovate.

Not globally funded, but does invest globally.

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by delroth on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:32AM (#43856834)
There are several other programs like STF funded by the EU (often mediated via NLNet), and for example Servo gets some amount of its funding via NGI (an EU Commission initiative): https://nlnet.nl/project/Servo/
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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by GoblinSlayer on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:03PM (#43860411)
Edge exposes its engine to be used in other programs like Skype.
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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by twiss on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:11PM (#43863419)
Edge no longer has its own engine, it's based on Chromium now. When it did, it also wouldn't qualify for STF funding because it wasn't open source.

But yes, a browser engine is potentially an embeddable library, so an open source one might qualify :)

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