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will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
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salvadordf
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Re: will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
Hi,
Right now BriskBard uses many open source components like OpenSSL, Hunspell, SQLite, Indy, CEF4Delphi...
CEF4Delphi is a wrapper around CEF3, which uses Chromium, which uses LOTS of other open source projects. In terms of code length, most of BriskBard is open source.
It's been almost a year since the first CEF4Delphi release and I'm thankful and happy with the results. Many people have contributed with donations, code, blog articles, youtube videos, testing, reporting issues, etc.
I would love to release the remaining parts as open source but then I would be defenseless against other developers "rebranding" the whole browser in countries with less strict copyright laws than mine.
Right now BriskBard uses many open source components like OpenSSL, Hunspell, SQLite, Indy, CEF4Delphi...
CEF4Delphi is a wrapper around CEF3, which uses Chromium, which uses LOTS of other open source projects. In terms of code length, most of BriskBard is open source.
It's been almost a year since the first CEF4Delphi release and I'm thankful and happy with the results. Many people have contributed with donations, code, blog articles, youtube videos, testing, reporting issues, etc.
I would love to release the remaining parts as open source but then I would be defenseless against other developers "rebranding" the whole browser in countries with less strict copyright laws than mine.
Re: will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
Hmmm. I don't understand one thing, if your browser is completely free, then what's the point of not publishing the source ?
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salvadordf
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Re: will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
Not all free software products are (fully) open source. Take a look at the android play store and you'll see a ton of them.
They just have alternative ways to monetize their products and the creators don't want to make it easy for other developers that change a few details and try to earn some money out of it.
They just have alternative ways to monetize their products and the creators don't want to make it easy for other developers that change a few details and try to earn some money out of it.
Re: will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
Ok, sou how do you get profit from this browser? By spying, by cheating with counters and ads etc ... ?
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salvadordf
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Re: will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
BriskBard uses the same way to monetize a free service that many other apps and blogs use : ads and affiliate marketing.
The default search engine in BriskBard is a "Google custom search engine" available here :
https://www.briskbard.com/search/
As you can see, the search results include some ads at the bottom.
Additionally, I also write some blog articles here :
https://www.briskbard.com/blog
Those articles have very useful information for anyone browsing the Internet and they include some ads and affiliate marketing links.
For now, all those ads have a very modest performance but I'm also the "computer guy" for some local companies. The amount of web traffic is steadily increasing and I'm confident BriskBard will have a great future.
The default search engine in BriskBard is a "Google custom search engine" available here :
https://www.briskbard.com/search/
As you can see, the search results include some ads at the bottom.
Additionally, I also write some blog articles here :
https://www.briskbard.com/blog
Those articles have very useful information for anyone browsing the Internet and they include some ads and affiliate marketing links.
For now, all those ads have a very modest performance but I'm also the "computer guy" for some local companies. The amount of web traffic is steadily increasing and I'm confident BriskBard will have a great future.
Re: will the "BriskBard's web browser" become opensource?
I hope so )))BriskBard will have a great future.