[CS-FSLUG] IS APPLE A GOOD OPEN SOURCE CITIZEN?

[James Thompson]

The development styles of Apple vs the KHTML folks is just
incompatible....Apple makes lots of proprietary changes that depend on
lower levels APIs and the changes are so extensive and undocumented
that they are nearly useless to the KHTML folks....

Nothing to see here...move along....


-James

On 6/1/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> IS APPLE A GOOD OPEN SOURCE CITIZEN?
> 
> It's no secret Apple's Safari Web browser borrows code from KHTML, an
> open source rendering library. Apple even advertises the fact on its Web
> site. But when it comes to the code Apple seeds back to the community,
> the KHTML developers are far from pleased, according to a blog post by
> Zack Rusin.
> 
> http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=DB77DA:1F5C3D3
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