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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by ginko on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:06PM (#33989521)
Safari is just a Webkit skin like Chrome is. The only independent browser is Firefox.
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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by ginko on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:45PM (#33991048)
why the downvotes? Both Safari and Chrome are based on KHTML. There's literally no difference between them.

They might have diverged technically but they're still both not really FOSS software.

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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by imwillofficial on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:11PM (#33991363)
Literally no difference is a wildly wrong and simplistic statement to make. There are vast differences.
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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by ginko on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:23PM (#33991517)
They're both LGPL so they're not truly Free.
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Re:Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web bro... by acdha on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:10PM (#33992161)
That’s a religious debate. Most open source developers do not agree so if you want to be provocative about it, accept the downvotes with grace.
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