Re:Apple’s research secrecy hurts industry and academic rese...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:35PM
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> Their contribution to WebKit is the only reason there is competition in the browser space
There have been competing closed-source browsers, plus Mozilla, that weren't dependent on WebKit. Without Apple's open-source work on WebKit, maybe Google wouldn't have done Chrome (or maybe Google would have forked Firefox as its starting point, instead), but there'd still be browser competition.
There have been competing closed-source browsers, plus Mozilla, that weren't dependent on WebKit. Without Apple's open-source work on WebKit, maybe Google wouldn't have done Chrome (or maybe Google would have forked Firefox as its starting point, instead), but there'd still be browser competition.