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Title: 'Ladybird' Browser's Nonprofit Becomes Public Charity, Now Officially
Tax-Exempt

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/01/1749...

The Ladybird browser project is now officially tax-exempt as a U.S. 501(c)(3)
nonprofit. Started two years ago (by the original creator of SerenityOS),
Ladybird will be "an independent, fast and secure browser that respects user
privacy and fosters an open web." They're targeting Summer 2026 for the first
Alpha version on Linux and macOS, and in May enjoyed "a pleasantly productive
month" with 261 merged PRs from 53 contributors - and seven new sponsors
(including coding livestreamer "ThePrimeagen". And they're now recognized as
a public charity: This is retroactive to March 2024, so donations made since
then may be eligible for tax exemption (depending on country-specific rules).
You can find all the relevant information on our new Organization page. ["Our
mission is to create an independent, fast and secure browser that respects
user privacy and fosters an open web. We are tax-exempt and rely on donations
and sponsorships to fund our development efforts."] Other announcements for
May: "We've been making solid progress on Web Platform Tests... This month,
we added 15,961 new passing tests for a total of 1,815,223." "We've also done
a fair bit of performance work this month, targeting Speedometer and various
websites that are slower than we'd like." [The optimizations led to a 10%
speed-up on Speedometer 2.1.]

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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