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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by basch on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:03PM (#5490726)
Isnt "take the tech, clone, tweak, and then don't contribute back" exactly the model Apple used to create webkit from khtml. If memory serves, the khtml team was incredibly unhappy with apple trying to submit giant monolithic and undocumented commits.
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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by deadc0de on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:56PM (#5490894)
It was not ok then, and it's even more not ok now, considering Chrome's market share.
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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by fpgeek on Thursday April 04, 2013 @04:53AM (#5491642)
What Google's doing now is far kinder than what Apple did then. As noted above, Apple "contributed back" big monolithic patches. By contrast, Google is providing access to a version-controlled repository. The latter is far easier to work with, of course.
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