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He succeeded at open sourcing those two projects. Not sure why he left, but other than WebKit, which was probably a defense against Microsoft and IE, don’t thin
by sudhirj 8y ago
He succeeded at open sourcing those two projects. Not sure why he left, but other than WebKit, which was probably a defense against Microsoft and IE, don’t think anything else can come out of Apple.
- bluGill 8y agoWebKit started as a fork from khtml (from kde). Apple didn't have a choice about open sourcing Webkit because they started with GPL2 code. They would have kept it closed source if they could, but that would have taken a few years of development, while they could start with khtml and get a great browser in just a few months. I expect in a few years (5-10) Apple will do an audit, discover that only a small amount of code isn't written by Apple, and replace that with inhouse code and then relicense to something propitiatory. Time will tell.
- wenc 8y agoWell I guess there's Foundationdb [1] and cups [2] but those were acquisitions. [1] https://github.com/apple/foundationdb https://github.com/apple/foundationdb [2] https://github.com/apple/cups https://github.com/apple/cups