• @HollandJim
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    6 months ago

    is the developer the most used browser (chrome) and its open source skeleton (chromium) on which most of all of the other browsers are based on (edge, brave etc)

    Which was branched from Apple’s open Webkit base, but let’s all also forget about that.

    They take the IP of others, spin it a bit and then block everyone. Burn them down.

    • @nixcamic
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      516 months ago

      Acting like Apple didn’t do the same thing with khtml to make WebKit.

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        The inevitable fate of any useful software that’s not GPL.

        When will people learn???

        Edit: Ironically, KHTML was originally LGPL. So modifications to KHTML were required to be open source by the license, but Chrome itself isn’t required to be open source (at least as far as I understand it, I am not an expert here). Nevertheless, if it were stronger GPL, then it probably wouldn’t have been impossible to write features like DRM in chrome. So I would have been a bit of an idiot to say that KHTML isn’t GPL (because LGPL is a weaker version of GPL), but in effect, the outcome is the same - all because of that big fat L at the beginning.

        • @jackhp95
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          186 months ago

          They totally do though. You can ONLY use webkit on any iOS device. Chrome, Firefox, etc. they all are forced to use webkit on iOS. Neither Google or Apple are treating the web nicely, but at least you have a choice to use a different browser. Apple makes that effectively impossible.

          • @nixcamic
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            56 months ago

            Also you can’t really use Apple TV properly without an Apple device. Same with iCloud. Actually really any service they make only works properly with their full stack.

                • @jackhp95
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                  16 months ago

                  It’s easy to not have Firefox on your device, just don’t install it. Why should apple prevent you from being able to do that?