Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jul 2012 19:38 UTC, submitted by tupp
It might be a cliche, but sometimes, a picture says more than a thousand words. Over the years, I've often talked about how the technology world is iterative, about how products are virtually always built upon that which came before, about how almost always, multiple people independently arrive at the same products since they work within the same constraints of the current state of technology. This elementary aspect of the technology world, which some would rather forget, has been illustrated very, very well in one of Samsung's legal filings against Apple.
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RE[8]: Crucifixion - What about webkit?
by Sabon on Thu 2nd Aug 2012 18:47
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Member since:2005-07-06
Webkit wasn't created by Apple but they used it and gave back a lot of updates to it. So does Google and so does FireFox...
I'd say that it was because of Apple adding what they did to webkit that Firefox and Google became intersted in it. Surely you will give them this if nothing else.
PS: They are not going to give out all their code for free. They would have to be complete idiots to do that. If you were to run the company and do what you say Apple should do, it wouldn't exist in two or three years.
Edited 2012-08-02 18:50 UTC
RE[9]: Crucifixion - What about webkit?
by BushLin on Thu 2nd Aug 2012 18:54
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Member since:2011-01-26
RE[9]: Crucifixion - What about webkit?
by smashIt on Fri 3rd Aug 2012 09:30
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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:
2011-01-26
So you have some fanboys voting for your ignorance, bully for you.
Apple take the BSD kernel, make minor contributions to make their stuff work and everything useful is closed source. You can't run OS X apps on Darwin, no-one uses it and in fact OpenDarwin closed years ago; citing that it "become a mere hosting facility for Mac OS X related projects,"
I'm guilty of hyperbole but their contribution to the hand that feeds them is microscopic, you're acting like a shill.