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There is quite a lot of costs associated with running a browser (at scale). Brave is looking to offer something that does what you mention called Brave-origin.

Brendan talks about this a bit more here: https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/2006412918783619455

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This is good news, but I am confused by the following:

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Brave Origin is:

1/ new, optional, separate build (stripped down, no telemetry/rewards/wallet/vpn/ai);

2/ free on Linux, one time buy elsewhere.

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So the stripped down version (at least the non-Linux one) will not be open source?

Open source software can be sold for money. For example redhat selling cds with rhel on them, for quite a big sticker price. Free if you build it yourself but you have to pay to get a ready to use version.

or figure out how to build it yourself from source. But you can count on the lazy tax - esp. for windows (as building from source on linux is likely to be much more convenient).

Maybe that's why it is free on Linux!

open-source ≠ gratis binaries

Rules that require the distribution of source code don't require the distribution of binaries.

That seems pretty reasonable proposition IMO.

As other people have mentioned you can resell open source software. I have a big box Linux distro on my shelf here.

I’d pay a monthly fee for a browser where I’m not the product anymore and it respects my privacy.

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