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Re: OT: acid test..
by Luke Chatburn on Thursday 28/Apr/2005, @23:43

Erm... KHTML was dying? You really could have fooled me. I was using it in Konqui on the desktop, as was 50% or higher of the Linux user market and the KDE on BSD folks and many more. KHTML has been ported to numerous platforms, and indeed, provides web browsing to a number of other small OS projects.

With the current rate of growth in Linux and BSD use, it is entirely possible that more people have Konqui installed than Safari (or indeed OSX as a whole), or they will have within the next year (statistics on Linux use being vague as they are...).

If Apple writes ugly code that can't be merged without building extensive support harnesses, then maybe it is faster to reimplement that code. That's what Zack is saying, and no doubt, that is probably the intention of Apple, to be quite frank. Manpower resources of any project would have problems fixing this mess; it's not a reflection on the KHTML team strength.

Bottom line: The KHTML developers made nice software, LGPL'd it, Apple benefited (they got that free meal that you talked about) and decided not to play nicely with the developers of the nice modern rendering engine that they got *for free*.

They're a standard selfish company that is chasing profit and not goodwill. That's life and that's okay; but there is no need to blame the KHTML developers for Apple's failures.

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