The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer

Re:The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer by throwaway54-762 on Thursday August 02, 2012 @07:49PM (#4331705)

Webkit is a fork of... wait for it... KHTML! The open source rendering engine from KDE.

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Re:The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer by redial on Thursday August 02, 2012 @08:58PM (#4331935)

Isn't that what the open source movement encourages?

And are you implying that it is simply KHTML rebranded and that they have not worked on it for more than 10 years?

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Re:The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer by philwelch on Thursday August 02, 2012 @09:15PM (#4331999)

Comparing KHTML to Webkit in the year 2012, it seems like Apple has done a much better job than KDE of "fostering a proper open source eco-system"....

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Re:The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer by saurik on Friday August 03, 2012 @02:53AM (#4332894)

WebCore is based on KHTML, and is thereby licensed user LGPL: it is open source, and due to that license choice Apple is stuck and can't fix it. However, WebKit, a library that sits on top of WebCore initially by Apple, and where a lot of the "little touches" (such as multitouch JavaScript events) goes, is under modified BSD, and Apple often does not release code for it back to the community; hell: even for WebCore they sometimes play games distributing binary object files for parts they want to redact.

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Re:The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer by cutie on Thursday August 02, 2012 @11:38PM (#4332403)

That's not really fare to KDE, Apple has a thousand times the resources.

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Re:The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer by philwelch on Thursday August 02, 2012 @11:47PM (#4332426)

That Apple used those resources to steward a successful open-source project themselves rather than just sending patches back to KDE makes the point, though.

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