clone webkit, done by apple, with access to their internal documentation

> done by apple, with access to their internal documentation

I'm pretty sure there was some antitrust investigation over Microsoft doing the same thing: giving their own software an unfair advantage on their operating system due to the insights the Office team could gain from the kernel team.

Microsoft made a convincing argument that the relevant teams never talked to each other, and the Office developers just reverse-engineered undocumented Windows APIs, the same any other developer would have had to.

Yes but Apple also sells the hardware so that makes it legal (for some reason I still don't understand).

I remember there was a comic strip that apple and google get away with stuff because they don't have an S in the name, like micro$oft.

Google also pays Apple and ungodly amount to make Google the default search engine - who knows what they have going on behind the scenes.

> clone webkit, done by apple

I'm gonna do a Stallman and post a reminder that webkit is an evolution of KDE's khtml. Not completely "done by apple" or even started by them.

Oh I know. And it's only free software now because it was LGPL licensed to begin with.

Otherwise they would have closed it.

Google has thrown out most of the code that this would be relevant for.