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Oh, this is interesting. As a GitHub sponsor of Andreas for a while now, what does that mean for sponsors? Are we funding exclusively work on LadyBird? (Had we been, for some time already?) Does the SerenityOS project have a GitHub sponsor?

I personally had grown more interested in the browser anyway, so I'll just keep sponsoring Andreas, I suppose, unless this all is a prelude to VC investment or a big company acquisition or something...

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Thank you so much for sponsoring me! :)

As I wrote in the announcement, I've already been working primarily on Ladybird for ~2 years already, so you have indeed been sponsoring Ladybird development by sponsoring me.

SerenityOS doesn't have a GitHub Sponsors itself, but it does use Polar to allow anyone to directly sponsor work on specific issues. See https://polar.sh/SerenityOS

And don't worry, there won't be some VC investment or big company buyout.

> And don't worry, there won't be some VC investment or big company buyout.

I fell for that trick 27 times already, you can't fool me! j/k

Thanks for the ride, wish you the best of luck.

> And don't worry, there won't be some VC investment or big company buyout.

That reminds me of Torvalds' statement on Linux: "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"

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