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I didn't notice the AWS downtime today.

If and if you did, you're using something you shouldn't be using in the first place.

@ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net

This means any fork needs to be branded as a different product.

And this new product then would become an immediate competitor

@ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Yes, and that's exactly why I posted what I did.

Vivaldi is not a company that cares about its users, privacy or freedom. They are not fighting for a better web, all they are doing is making the web more locked down and taking more control away from the user. All of this that is being claimed on your website and it is just marketing and not reality.

I really hope they change this policy and publish the full source code at some point. Because if they do Vivaldi can actually start hanging out with the big boys like Firefox or Chromium.

I really want to drive home the point that you currently have more restrictions than the bigger players in your field, that actively blocking distribution maintainers from properly implementing your software. That is really bad.

Trust me when I say that there is currently an entire world of free and "open source" people like me out there who are probably willing to switch to Vivaldi but are unable to, just because of they are being extremely greedy with a very small, but important part of the codebase.

Something like this can be changed very easily too. All you have to do is add a license file to the repo and click on "publish".

So why not do it?

@ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Like I said. That's not the full source code, parts of it are excluded.

@ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Both Wikipedia and Vivaldi's own website explicitly mention that about 5% of the source code is missing.

Vivaldi has even posted essentially the same blogpost about it multiple times. It contains various invalid and cope excuses for why that is the case.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/
https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/

If you actually care about your users, you should give them the full source code with a free software license, no exceptions.

@ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I thought Vivaldi did not publish the full source code of the application including the UI, but only published the changes it made to Chromium? Did this recently change?

@ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Because you don't release the source code of your browser.

@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Good morning to everyone who develops software that respects the user's freedom (not you)