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Vivaldi CEO explains his anti-AI stance: most users don’t want AI in the browser (cybernews.com)
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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.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

The arrogance in this statement, lol. :)

I mean sure, I get it, but what I dont get is why a company would have paid engineers working on a product and give it away for free if that's their only income stream? How will they pay their engineers? Pay for office space? Make a profit?

It's funny that people expect free stuff but complain when their data is being sold to ad agencies. :)

Like, shit, why can't I sit here on my throne and have companies give me free stuff and maybe I will decide to use it from the kindness of my heart. :)

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 0 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Firefox is open-source, and shares the same business model as Vivaldi.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If Google ever becomes certain that their monopoly state is in no danger of being broken by legislature, they stop financing Firefox, and Mozilla immediately dies to bankruptcy.

I think your example serves the other guy's point...

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 6 hours ago

If Google ever stops developing Chromium with a Free/permissive license, then Vivaldi dies too.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Mozilla has revenue directly from Google search that is keeping the company afloat.

You probably know this. Otherwise you should have asked yourself how they can have offices and employees with no income to the company...

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 6 hours ago

Mozilla has revenue directly from Google search

Vivaldi does too.