Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jul 2007 21:04 UTC, submitted by troy.unrau
"There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE's web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little original corporate backing. The code was good and branches were born as a result, the best known being Webkit. Now, after years of split, KHTML and Webkit are coming together once again."
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2006-11-24
Maybe because "competition" is such a corporately-tainted word that has gained excessive dictionarial (English) baggage over the last several decades?
"Competition" is best used to compare Dell and HP, or Canon and Nokia, not KDE and GNOME or Gecko and WebKit.
That is, unless you want to count the corporate backings which are put behind such projects (Apple/Nokia/Adobe behind WebKit, Mozilla/Google behind Gecko, Novell/Sun behind GNOME, Trolltech behind KDE, etc). Then yeah, they're "competing".