Apple now worth more than Microsoft

[Florian Diesch]

David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com> writes:

>> CUPS is quite popular on Linux, and I like WebKit, too. I guess there
>> are more, but that's just the Apple products I'm using daily that come to
>> my mind.
>>
>
> These are hardly  "Apple" products - they were both pretty mature
> before Apple went anywhere near them and are still developed in
> public. 

Since CUPS is owned by Apple the full documentation is freely
available (before you had to pay for it). That's a good thing.

WebKit development wasn't public at first. Since it is public it got
support from Google and AFAIK Nokia.

As they are owned by Apple I call them "Apple products".

> Apple just bought the code so they can be excused from
> licensing out the bits used in OSX via the GPL.

Both are available under LGPL, parts of WebKit under BSD. Of course
Apple adopted them because they want to use them in their own products -
that's fine for me.


For me Apple products seem to be usable unless their name starts with
"i".


   Florian
-- 
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