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I wonder what the Chromium team did
by nsgi 4y ago
I wonder what the Chromium team did
- LtWorf 4y agoclone webkit, done by apple, with access to their internal documentation
- saagarjha 4y agoGoogle has thrown out most of the code that this would be relevant for.
- wongarsu 4y ago> done by apple, with access to their internal documentation I'm pretty sure there was some antitrust investigation over Microsoft doing the same thing: giving their own software an unfair advantage on their operating system due to the insights the Office team could gain from the kernel team. Microsoft made a convincing argument that the relevant teams never talked to each other, and the Office developers just reverse-engineered undocumented Windows APIs, the same any other developer would have had to.
- tick_tock_tick 4y agoYes but Apple also sells the hardware so that makes it legal (for some reason I still don't understand).
- Melatonic 4y agoGoogle also pays Apple and ungodly amount to make Google the default search engine - who knows what they have going on behind the scenes.
- LtWorf 4y agoI remember there was a comic strip that apple and google get away with stuff because they don't have an S in the name, like micro$oft.
- nottorp 4y ago> clone webkit, done by apple I'm gonna do a Stallman and post a reminder that webkit is an evolution of KDE's khtml. Not completely "done by apple" or even started by them.
- LtWorf 4y agoOh I know. And it's only free software now because it was LGPL licensed to begin with. Otherwise they would have closed it.