Open-Source Divorce for Apple's Safari?
Two years after it selected open-source rendering engine KHTML as the basis of its Safari Web browser, Apple has proposed resolving compatibility conflicts by scrapping that code base in favour of its own. One analyst said the meltdown between KDE and Apple was the exception, rather than the rule, when it came to corporate-open-source relations. One KDE contributor said the demise and divergence of the Apple-KDE relationship was no surprise. (ZDNet News)