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Safari: Apple must have donw something right

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cahult:
500.000 downloads is one thing that says Apple did something right. According to Apple 10 % of all Mac OS X users have downloaded Safari since its release.

choasforages:
the only thing apple did was use konquerer, but aslong as i can download the sourcecode for safari, i don't care, i appluad this.

Pantso:
Apple have proven with Safari and Darwin that they play fair when they start a project based on Open Source code. Furthermore, the fact that Apple's software engineers starting sharing Safari's code modifications and bug fixes with KDE's team from the day Safari was released, is also a sign of good will on both parties and definitely a step forward for the Open Source community. I don't know about you, but that's certainly good news to me.

voidmain:
I agree that it is a step forward, but I feel it is  a step forward more for the company who was previously totally proprietary than for the open source community. Sure they may add enhancements to the code, but that's what open source is all about. I just hope they give due credit in the "About" boxes (if they exist). Maybe you could verify this for me...

Looks to be good news all the way around. Hopefully more companies will follow suit (well, we know one company who will not).

[ January 11, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]

Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by void main:
I agree that it is a step forward, but I feel it is more of a step forward more for the company who was previously totally proprietary than for the open source community. Sure they may add enhancements to the code, but that's what open source is all about. I just hope they give due credit in the "About" boxes (if they exist). Maybe you could verify this for me...

Looks to be good news all the way around. Hopefully more companies will follow suit (well, we know one company who will not).
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I'll check that later, when I re-download Safari and I'll get back on that. I had to uninstall the previous version due to the known problems which have been, hopefully, solved in the new version. All in all however, I think that it's good news and I sure hope it stays that way.  

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