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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by dfajgljsldkjag on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:53PM (#46506924)
Open source software can be sold for money. For example redhat selling cds with rhel on them, for quite a big sticker price. Free if you build it yourself but you have to pay to get a ready to use version.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by chii on Monday January 05, 2026 @10:36PM (#46508461)
or figure out how to build it yourself from source. But you can count on the lazy tax - esp. for windows (as building from source on linux is likely to be much more convenient).
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by HPsquared on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:16AM (#46511837)
Maybe that's why it is free on Linux!
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