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Apple Delays Release of LGPL WebKit Code
jfruhlinger writes "Ever since Apple forked the KHTML project to create WebKit, the rendering engine at the core of Safari, the company has been a good open source citizen, releasing the code back to the community after updates. But that suddenly stopped in March, with no code releases for the last two updates to the iOS version of the browser, for reasons unknown. This might remind you of Google's failure to release the Honeycomb source code. But at least Google announced that it was holding the code back, and Android is under a license that allows for a delay; the LGPL'd WebKit isn't."
Update: 05/09 21:21 GMT by S : Reader Shin-LaC points out that Apple has now released the relevant source code.
On Slashdot Google gets off scott-free all the time. Most of the time it appears to be because people are taken in by their claim to be "open", when in fact they are not open. It's a reoccurring theme on tech sites and it's somewhat humorous to watch. It's like Republican vs Democrat. Each side just sticks to their idealogical talking points and will concede nothing. The brain dead commentary on Google vs Apple stories is usually more interesting than the article itself.