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Not open source per OSI criteria, however they claim the source is available and can be inspected:

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/is-vivaldi-open-source/

Interesting.

> This means that for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit.

Acid test: can I build it myself and expect to see identical binaries to what they ship?

Actually the acid test in this instance is whether, source in hand, you can prove https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17564964 wrong. (-:

The ID-generation code should be inspectable, right?

Can you do that with Firefox? Reproducible builds are pretty hard.

Fair point. Of course, to a FOSS purist, it's still not good enough, as mere source-inspectibility isn't enough to qualify as OSI Open Source, or as FSF Free Software.

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