Ladybird, a truly independent web browser.
Ladybird
Video announcement by Chris Wanstrath (GitHub co-founder) of the 501(c) non-profit and $1,000,000 donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k
Chris Wanstrath ... $1,000,000 donation
So.. not independent then.
The website claims that sponsors have no direct influence on the project ("board seats are not for sale"). The reality is that no project of sufficient scale to fully implement web standards can survive without a significant amount of funding.
Meanwhile on their website:
Chris Wanstrath (Secretary & Treasurer)
from the FAQ
The threat of losing future donations if you upset a sponsor is still coercive.
(sad part is even if they sold out, they’d still be leagues ahead of the compromises Firefox and Chrome have made)
I do not understand how folks like you get so shitty about Firefox taking Google money for making it a default search engine when that is the very clear, very limited extent of their relationship. This is the definition of “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” Because Firefox is pretty damn near perfect. I feel like I have to be missing something here.
What is the issue here? What compromises have they made that make them so irredeemable? If it’s the search default for google that’s just not sufficient IMO.
With all of this in mind i’m down to be critical but this is not enough to warrant the hate.
“I’m not mad, I’m just … disappointed.”
Don’t be an asshole
