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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by Patcito on Tuesday 11/Mar/2008, @10:36

> I am not willing to hand over control to a good chunk of our infrastructure to Apple

isn't the LGPL supposed to take care of that?

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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by SadEagle on Tuesday 11/Mar/2008, @11:22

A lot of people believe that, but it's simply not true in 99% of cases. You need people to make things happen, they don't show up out of thin air.

kdeprint was LGPLd, too, but there wasn't an active community around it, so when the main driving force behind it left, it was orphaned, and then abandoned entirely in KDE4. The result is that KDE4 has made a huge step back in printing functionality.

What some people want to see happen with QtWebKit, and in particular the way they are pushing it, make a chance of any KDE community connection with it close to nil, which means things will soon bitrot, and if one of the big corporate pushers has a change in priorities, we'll be pretty screwed.

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