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Funny that minor side project of KDE is now responsible for the vast majority of today's Internet traffic. Did the original authors of KHTML ever receive a sing
by sprash 8y ago
Funny that minor side project of KDE is now responsible for the vast majority of today's Internet traffic. Did the original authors of KHTML ever receive a single dime for their work?
- mevile 8y ago> Did the original authors of KHTML ever receive a single dime for their work? Why would they? That's not how open source works. If the KDE devs that made Konqueror wanted to capture value or do it for monetary gain they would have made a closed source browser and I doubt Apple would have then picked it to build WebKit. Apple is what made WebKit predominant, the KDE devs simply did a great job and should be very proud of what they've done, but it doesn't make sense for there to be policy change around open source for recompensating devs when their projects take off.
- AsyncAwait 8y ago> Why would they? That's not how open source works. If the KDE devs that made Konqueror wanted to capture value or do it for monetary gain they would have made a closed source browser Making something open-source does not mean you don't want to make money off it.
- Gaelan 8y agoI wonder how much of KHTML is even left in WebKit/blink.
- mda 8y agoThere is almost nothing left of it for years.
- gsnedders 8y ago> Did the original authors of KHTML ever receive a single dime for their work? Many, AIUI, were employees of Trolltech, and I assume Trolltech paid its employees.
- adontz 8y agoThat's common story. SQLite began as TCL extension. And who uses TCL these days compared to SQLite?