Safari vs. KHTML

Johnny Mnemonic writes "CNET has a story that describes the divergence between the code base of Safari and KHTML. Although there were high hopes that Apple would contribute significantly to the OSS project, that optimism has all but disappeared. Is an unrealized danger of OSS that others may take your project in a direction you didn't intend? Can OSS code and goals harmonize with the goals and needs of corporation designed code? Is it that Apple mismanaged the relationship, or that the KHTML guys expected too much? Interesting warning for other OSS-corporate marriages." We've previously reported on the frustration in the OSS community on this issue.

Comments

Typical for Apple in the FOSS world

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Apple is just a lousy company to co-operate with in an open source project. It is interesting that the KDE people mention that the fixes from Apple are more like hacks that break other things. This is _exactly_ the same as what happens with GCC. Always quick hacks to pass some benchmark or validation suite, or to paper over real bugs in dreadful ways. Never any real, constructive co-operation. Somehow, Apple appears to be unable to work with a community, instead of against it.

Re:Here's a quote from Zack Rusin

[Lars T.]

So you are saying that he didn't mean what he said? That KHTML did become worse because of Apple's involvement? And what the hell have you done to make KHTML any better? You are a whiner, nothing else.