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If it's open source, it's not developed by apple......

• program 15y ago
  WebKit is open source and is developed by Apple and other companies such as KDE, Google, Nokia, Samsung and others.
  • cookiecaper 15y ago
    KDE is not a company and WebKit originated as a fork from KHTML, KDE's HTML rendering engine used in Konqueror. Too much credit is often ascribed to Apple for appropriating the engine on to a popular piece of software (OS X).
    • bad_user 15y ago
      They did applied polish to it though and also built a new Javascript engine. I don't know who contributed what, but today's WebKit is a lot better than what KHTML was before being forked. I was once a KDE user and the first thing I did after a fresh install was to replace Konqueror. But yes, truth be told, the KDE developers that worked on KHTML deserve a lot of credit.
• ma2rten 15y ago
  You are not doing Apple justice. Next to WebKit, which is the base for Chrome and Safari, they also open sourced Darwin, which is the base for iOS and MacOS X.
  • usaar333 15y ago
    Didn't they legally have to opensource webkit? It's a derivative of KHTML which is under the LGPL. I'll give Apple credit for Darwin though.
    • ma2rten 15y ago
      Well, Apple could have chosen to develop something new from scratch instead. Most software companies at the time (10 years ago) would have not even considered building on top of an open-source project. That said you should also not give too much credit to Apple. I think that Darwin was build on top of FOSS is merely because it was developed by NEXT, which was a startup and needed to save cost. The original MacOS was closed source after all.
    • Produce 15y ago
      What is up with people giving Apple credit for everything in this discussion? Darwin is composed of the Mach 3 microkernel, parts of BSD and NeXTSTEP. In other words, the vast majority of the work that has gone into it is not Apple's. It's merely a BSD-style distribution.