Opera moves to WebKit

Re:Opera moves to WebKit by runn1ng on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @01:50PM (#5214868)

I see this as a win for open source software. (Or "free software". I never know.)

Opera never open-sourced its rendering engine Presto, keeping it as a jewel of sorts. On the other hand, Apple always shared the WebKit code, so Google could come, fork it and make it better.

Opera thought that keeping Presto proprietary will give them advantage in the market. Instead, it made it obsolete and irrelevant.

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Re:Opera moves to WebKit by dylan-m on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @02:56PM (#5215274)

I totally agree with you here, but I just need to correct you on something. Webkit is based on KHTML, which was available with the LGPL license. Of course, it's much more Webkit than KHTML at this point, but it isn't so much that Apple shared the Webkit code as they wisely forked a mature open source project and followed its license ;)

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Re:Opera moves to WebKit by mikaelj on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:27PM (#5216108)

Apple shared?

Get with the program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML

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