Safari's rendering engine has incorporated closed-source binary blobs with ambiguous licensing that call into undocumented OS X APIs from the very beginning. S

Safari's rendering engine has incorporated closed-source binary blobs with ambiguous licensing that call into undocumented OS X APIs from the very beginning. See http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/02/finding-a-worm-in-the-apple-secret-apis-in-mac-os-x/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/02/finding-a-worm-in-the-a... Used to be that critical functionality like font rendering went through the binary blobs too.