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It makes sense. Apple did not chose it because they are commie hippies. They are a cut throat for profit company and they chose it because it is a free and go
by biohacker42 18y ago
It makes sense.
Apple did not chose it because they are commie hippies.
They are a cut throat for profit company and they chose it because it is a free and good code base.
And that makes development cheaper and faster - good for any for profit company,
There is also no giving up of control to speak of. You can fork any time you like, and you can do what ever you like. You lose no control.
So why wouldn't Microsoft do it?
Pride, not invented here syndrome, internal politics, what ever, I just don't think we'll see it happen any time soon.
But I hope to be proven wrong.
- Herring 18y agoIf you were Apple, you would want to decrease the costs of switching to a new browser. The same's not true for Microsoft.
- neilc 18y agoMS would also face a considerable cost in emulating the various IE brokenness in a WebKit-based browser (and accurate emulation would be very important to a lot of people).
- ivank 18y agoIf Microsoft adopts WebKit, they'll probably keep IE7 emulation mode in, as it is now in IE8. I doubt they'll try to port IE bugs to WebKit; there's just too many.