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Open source and your Mac

Started by Jure Cuhalev · 9 months ago

This week I gave a presentation on topic of Open Source and Mac OS X and how it affects your life as a Mac user. While the initial idea was to talk about Open Source alternatives on OS X, I quickly discovered that this might not be the best thing to talk about. The issue [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Hey Jure, just a tiny comment regarding slide no. 5... :)

    If it's that simple, then why doesn't Apple just opensource the whole browser? Yes, it's not that simple. Actually, it would be better to say something like "Safari = KHTML + Cocoa + Secret Internal APIs".

    Apple is using lots of secret internal APIs, which provide a way for them to communicate to different revisions of Mac OS X. This approach isn't opensource friendly, nor is it that different from what was Microsoft doing in the late 90's.
  • Žiga: thanks for clarifaying this. I think we'll see some progress here also with porting of Konqueror to OS X

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