Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it's bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a
We’re working on it! We’ve begun with some of our components and intend to open more in the future.
Forking WebKit, porting hundreds of APIs and writing a browser app from scratch has been challenging for our small team. Properly maintaining an open-source project takes time and resources we’re short on at the moment, so if you want to contribute at this time, please consider becoming active on orionfeedback.org.
Properly maintaining an open-source project takes time and resources
But why not make it source available? They most likely already use git, so they just need to port it to github. Its not like they would need to review a bunch of merge requests, since they are source available only.
Good luck making a Linux user switch to a new proprietary browser.
Is Orion open-source?
Let’s see…
But why not make it source available? They most likely already use git, so they just need to port it to github. Its not like they would need to review a bunch of merge requests, since they are source available only.
pretty sure it’s like all those projects that say that and never do it, iirc they’ve had that thing in their faq for years