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There's still time to open source it. I'm confused why they don't, at this point. Well, not that confused, I guess it ties in to Windows quite a bit and it's p
by scrollaway 8y ago
There's still time to open source it. I'm confused why they don't, at this point.
Well, not that confused, I guess it ties in to Windows quite a bit and it's probably not worth it for them. Still I hope they do it.
- sebazzz 8y agoI do not think it is trivial to port EdgeHTML. Don't forget it is a fork of Trident with the legacy parts clipped away and some cogs polished, replaced or added. Not meant to run multi-plat, not even meant to run outside Windows 10.
- scrollaway 8y agoWrong person to reply to :) I don't really think it's worth porting it to Linux either. Although I'm sure the Wine people would have a field day with it. But open sourcing it for the sake of practical domain knowledge, if not history, would be good.
- burtonator 8y ago"There's still time to open source it. I'm confused why they don't, at this point." can't... it's really difficult to retroactively open source something. Only a few developers grok the code and they work for your company and are about to move on to another project. Tooling is usually proprietary and tied into some 3rd party infra.... Look at OpenJDK... Sun and Oracle dragged their feet FOREVER on this and the project still has problems because of it... Should have been OSSd in 2005 but Sun was insanely naive.