"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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No. Whenever the term is used, it is almost exclusively used for companies who are competing for marketshare, vying for people's money, and doing so feature-for-feature against each other in order to take the other one down and send him home packing.
The only other area in which the term "compete" is used just as much is in sports. You have two soccer/futbol teams who are vying for the World Cup; what, pray tell, does one team think about the game?
They're thinking "OK, we have a chance to send that other team home to get an Italy-like beatdown. Let's do it!"
You compete to win. You compete to take the trophy home. You compete to justify your worth on the world stage. And you might compete just to get revenge on the other team that took your best man out at the last competition.
What is WebKit or Gecko competing for? Is there a prize involved?
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At aKademy, the term "co-opetition" is mostly used for Gnome (cooperation & competition in one term, indeed). And in the netherlands the term "con-collega's" is used, roughly translatable as "colleagues from the competition". After all, we invented the 'poldermodel', which apparently is also used for competition. A bit dangerous, of course (as it borders on illegal cartel deals and stuff).
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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".