Comments on: Open source and your Mac http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/02/23/open-source-and-your-mac/ In pursuit of The Idea Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:18:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jure Cuhalev http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/02/23/open-source-and-your-mac/comment-page-1/#comment-14080 Jure Cuhalev Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:27:55 +0000 http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/02/23/open-source-and-your-mac/#comment-14080 Žiga: thanks for clarifaying this. I think we'll see some progress here also with porting of Konqueror to OS X Žiga: thanks for clarifaying this. I think we’ll see some progress here also with porting of Konqueror to OS X

]]> By: Žiga Sancin http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/02/23/open-source-and-your-mac/comment-page-1/#comment-14074 Žiga Sancin Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:33:58 +0000 http://www.jurecuhalev.com/blog/2008/02/23/open-source-and-your-mac/#comment-14074 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. 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.

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