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  1. Re:Obviously untrue by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 1 · on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry

    I wrote: "Webkit probably remains OSS only because the KHTML foundation requires it."

    You wrote: "That is bullshit and you know it."

    No, I don't know that it is bullshit. Is it speculation? Of course, that is why I wrote the word probably.

    Of course, if Apple had closed Webkit, they wouldn't have benefited from the enormous investment of Google to its development.

    Google wouldn't have been able to "invest" in Webkit if it wasn't for Apple. And they sure as hell wouldn't have spend any time or money invested in KHTML. So Apple gave to Google.

  2. Re:Obviously untrue by deppman · · Score: 1 · on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry

    I wrote: "Webkit probably remains OSS only because the KHTML foundation requires it."

    You wrote: "That is bullshit and you know it."

    No, I don't know that it is bullshit. Is it speculation? Of course, that is why I wrote the word probably.

    Of course, if Apple had closed Webkit, they wouldn't have benefited from the enormous investment of Google to its development. So in the end, I guess they are thankful for the LGPL license.

    You wrote: "If you don't support the right to fork [...] you don't support open source."

    Yes Webkit was always a fork. But the KHTML devs were led to believe that there would be collaboration - and apparently there was up until Apple got what they wanted ...

    You wrote: [...] and why they open source most Apple-originated projects.

    How in the world do you come by that metric? Everywhere I look in Apple I see proprietary hardware, software, and services that are designed specifically for lock-in.

  3. Code, Issue tracker, mailing lists analysis by larjona99 · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project?

    You can perform an analysis using the information of activity in the source code, issue tracker and mailing lists, so you get an idea of the history of the project and how is doing in the last term (who are the most active developers, which parts remain unmaintained, how is the activity of the user/developer mailing lists...). Some companies/consultants offer this kind of service. For example Bitergia license their tools as open source (the MetricsGrimoire toolset, among others) so you can extract the metrics yourself, or contract them for a more comprenhensive report.

  4. Re:Danger! Danger Will Robinson! by Dupple · · Score: 4, Informative · on IE Standardization Fading Fast

    Here's some info showing the share of contributions

    http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/02/06/report-on-the-activity-of-companies-in-the-webkit-project/