Safari And KHTML May Never Meet

diegocgteleline.es writes "Announcing that Safari passes the Acid2 test has raised some voices in the KDE world. Apple, they say, isn't playing friendly. They don't provide a CVS history, just the modified files where nobody can understand how and when things have changed. It's quite likely that KHTML developers will have to write their own code to pass the acid2 test. Zack Rusin writes: 'All I'm asking for is that all the clueless people stop talking about the cooperation between Safari/Konqueror developers and how great it is. There's absolutely nothing great about it. In fact "it" doesn't exist.'"

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Re:we do understand that

[cahiha]

So, in your opinion, which for-profit corporations are doing a better job, and why? I'm genuinely curious who you would select as providing a better example, and what others would think of your selection(s).

Redhat (numerous contributions), Novell/SuSE (Mono, among many others), and IBM (Eclipse, GCC, kernel, Jikes, etc.) have contributed enormously. A true open source contributor doesn't view software as a zero-sum game. When IBM donates code to Linux or Java, they know that they help lots of "competitors" with that as well, but they also know that everybody, including themselves, wins overall.

Apple, on the other hand, still seems to view everything in terms of "us vs. the world" (an attitude shared with Sun and Microsoft). Apple is out to beat everybody and show that their technology is supposedly the best (in reality: not even close).

But I don't really care about Jobs's delusions, all I care about is that Apple keeps lying publicly about their innovation and about their support for open source. The fact is that the company doesn't pay for research and the company does not support open source, and to represent themselves as if they did is evil.