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Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule. (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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See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783

Edit: They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62

Edit 2: They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z

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[–] flumph@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This blog from the maintainer makes it clear they have no interest in open source other than to advertise their own skills

Preparing for a New Beginning for Floorp

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well that’s kind of a shitty thing to say about someone without backing it up with some specifics.

What specific passage from that blog post makes you think that?

[–] flumph@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The purpose is to learn how to publish code that cannot be used for forking as open source.

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I have to obligate the folks to choose whether they want to pay me or help me code.

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....it was not beneficial to me.

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...new to gaining good visibility through open source,