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microtonal
4629 days ago
Webkit was already open source before Apple started using it.
Apple
created
Webkit. They were using/forked KHTML for that, but it quickly diverged.
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fetbaffe
4629 days ago
Sorry for the error, but yes they forked something already open source.
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ddebernardy
4629 days ago
And moreover, they could have closed-source the parts that they eventually released under BSD.
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