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Florp, the Firefox fork with an awful name, is fully source-available again (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/foss@beehaw.org
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The repository for the previously private submodule is still called Floorp-private-components, though it's public.

https://blog.ablaze.one/4125/2024-03-11/ is a maintainer's official response to... Reddit, which crossposted me apparently. Hooray!

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[–] axum@kbin.social 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Florp, to me, is not a serious project and best avoided unless you like playing with random hobby toys. Not sure why people are so up in arms over what some random tiny hobby thing does

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ablaze was high school students making random hobby projects. This one got popular and it has obviously had a negative effect on the dev (who is likely in university by now). Sounds like they are also feeling a sense of responsibility for things they aren't responsible for.

It also sounds like they don’t really understand open source.

Their Twitter makes it seem like they aren’t having much fun.

[–] pop@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Linux was not a serious project and a random hobby toy things.

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big andprofessional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

Try to be less condescending less time about other people's work.

[–] axum@kbin.social 22 points 7 months ago

Nothing you said invalidates what I just said.
I would not have used Linux in 1991 either, unless I was looking to play with a hobby toy.