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Nokia Develops a New Browser on Apple WebKit
Althazzar writes "Nokia has built a new browser for their Symbian system based on the WebKit open source project from Apple, released last week. "Apple is pleased to assist Nokia in creating their new Series 60 browser based on the same KHTML open source technology that powers Apple's Safari"."
This from a guy who admittedly hears voices?
feh. stuff.
> It's poorly engineered, and most of its code is
> shockingly badly written
which is exactly the opposite of what Nokia just said about KDE code in this article. good job!
> KDE is totally dependent on TrollTech, it's
> health as a company and goodwill
we benefit from the health and goodwill of Trolltech. GNOME benefits from the health and goodwill of Red Hat. we could add a number of such entities to each project's roster, and that's a good thing.
but KDE is not dependant on Trolltech. at least not in the way the dictionary defines "dependant". in fact, KDE isn't dependant on any single entity though we benefit from the involvement of many, and that's one of our strengths as a project.
> one wonders how you've remained unmodded down
> by the KDE zealots
likely because it's more amusing to watch what new sillyness you people can come up with than to mod you down. you may expect those who care about KDE to try and supress alternative viewpoints, but that's not generally how we try and do things.
> don't bother mentioning the FreeQt agreements,
> they aren't worth the bandwidth used to email
> them
i suppose you should let the lawyers who worked on the most recent version of the agreement know then. unless, of course, they might just understand it a lot better than you.
> KDE is being badly left behind by GNOME.
ah, the bias emerges. =) you are entitled to your opinion, of course. i feel you're completely out to lunch on this one, in part due to my own research into both platforms and in part due to listening to people evaluating Open Source desktops for real world deployments.
all the same, regardless of whether i'm right or you're right or we're both right, don't you think there are more productive ways of approaching this issue? you know, ones that don't make Microsoft chuckle in glee.