▲ 1061 ▼ Vivaldi CEO explains his anti-AI stance: most users don’t want AI in the browser (cybernews.com) submitted 1 day ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world 209 comments fedilink hide all child comments Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and founder of Vivaldi Technologies, refuses to integrate AI features in its browser and wants human engineers, not AI, to write its code.
[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 hours ago (1 child) Isn't Vivaldi largely open source? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ruby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 hours ago the devs like to pretend that it is and say how only a small part of it is proprietary, but it's a deceptive PR stunt because they're counting the whole chromium source into that statistic. if we don't consider the chromium source they didn't write, their own vivaldi code is largely proprietary. regardless, a program consisting of 99.9% free code and 0.1% proprietary code is proprietary as a whole - you can't audit, modify or redistribute copies of it as long as any non-free code is present. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ruby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 hours ago the devs like to pretend that it is and say how only a small part of it is proprietary, but it's a deceptive PR stunt because they're counting the whole chromium source into that statistic. if we don't consider the chromium source they didn't write, their own vivaldi code is largely proprietary. regardless, a program consisting of 99.9% free code and 0.1% proprietary code is proprietary as a whole - you can't audit, modify or redistribute copies of it as long as any non-free code is present. permalink fedilink source parent