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> and the project is well funded by large investors.

Hmm, why is there no mention of that in the splitting announcement?

Did said large investors trigger the drop of SerenityOS because they don't want to waste their resources on a niche hobby platform?

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Ladybird does not have investors, only sponsors/donors. We have received some really generous donations in the past, for example $100,000 from Shopify in 2023 which allowed me to hire a few of our contributors to work full time on the project. :)

Sponsors have no direct influence over the project, but I obviously feel a strong moral obligation to put 100% of the funds towards improving Ladybird and nothing else.

100k is not "well funded by large investors" anyway :)

Sadly it is, when we are talking about independent open source projects.

That could fund my research for 5 years :(

Yeah but one person working 5 years or 5 persons working 1 year isn't likely to be enough to make a modern browser that is feature complete enough to be able to replace the likes of Firefox, Chrome etc.

Apologies, I did mean "well sponsored" not well funded, my mistake :') You're doing awesome work and I'm really excited for you and the project! All the best :)

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