The Unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit Begins

Jiilik Oiolosse writes to tell us Ars Technica is reporting that after years of existing seperately, KHTML and Webkit are finally coming back together. "In open source terms, this may be as big of a deal as the gcc and egcs merger of yonder days. KHTML and Webkit are definitely coming of age. The KDE developers, responsible for the original creation of KHTML, are dedicated to seeing this unforking happen and are taking a leading role in that effort."

Comments

why does slashdot look like shit in IE?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it because you guys can't write a decent web application to save your life?

Dear KDE

[Anonymous Coward]

You had best unfork yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!

Sincerely,

Sgt. Hartman

Boy lost in the Software.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a dangerous zone if the boy unknowns that he is on mined zone of GPLv3.

The boy always wants GPLv2 code and never GPLv3.

Imagine a "hidden GPLv3 license" inside of a file of a tarball of a subpackage of a KDE of a distributions 100% GPLv2.

Surprise! Surprise! Surprised! You're damned!!!

# grep -iR GPLv3 / doesn't work because of the compressed files.

Re:As big as GCC?

[Vexorian]

Hell yeah, I mean a web rendering engine? Like we needed more of those... and frigging apple is involved! for god's sake, don't compare this to precious GCC...

Re:Unforking?

[tqk]

Can we please unfork KDE and Gnome next? Assuming that means the two of them will implode into a Black Hole and wink out of existence. Please?

Fluxbox rules, Blackbox's not bad, Openbox tends to work after a fashion, and there's always fvwm* or dwm for the rest. Enlightenment, you're on your own.