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Safari And KHTML May Never Meet

Posted by Zonk on from the officially-that-is dept.

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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  1. Re:Wow - vitriolic by vally_the_poo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Can't they be sued for GPL infrigement ?
    That would be great really !

  2. Re:Come on, Apple.. by Cereal+Box · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Presumably, someone at Apple has to do additional work to do more than the bare minimum. Therefore, it would cost Apple money to do this. The KDE guys work for free. Apple says "let them handle it." Makes sense.

    Geez, the open source community is about as ungrateful as it gets. They beg and plead for real businesses to use open source, and when they do, they're threatened with litigation if so much as a single source file goes missing or sneered at if detailed instructions outlining the process of merging two complicated code bases together isn't present.

  3. i don't get it. by torpor · · Score: 1, Redundant


    whats wrong with taking apples code, doing a diff, and spending a few hours or so, for a few days, comparing notes on a new tree? i really don't understand the fuss, so please someone enlighten me ...

    seems to me this is just a matter of bad apples. safari gets the cool-hits for passing the acid2 test, the khtml guys are just pissed coz theirs are the giants shoulders apple stood on ... so?

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  4. Re:We expect them to respect the law by francisew · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Haven't they released the source?

  5. Can't see the differences? What's 'diff' for? by Christianfreak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    diff -u khtml_file apple_file

    Just how hard is that???

    Granted maybe I'm misunderstanding since the article is Slashdotted but it really sounds to me like this is 'not invented here' syndrome more than Apple doing anything nefarious.

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