soeren says

And in even better news…

February 10th, 2006

I thought the BNL podcast was the best news of the evening/night, but then this happened.

Back in June 2005, we started the WebKit Open Source Project. Since then, lots of people have gotten involved in the project. Those of us at Apple are grateful for all the work they’ve done and how it will help us with future releases of Safari and WebKit.We’ve received contributions in every area of WebKit. Here are just a few of the improvements made by non-Apple contributors: [..]

And now… get this:

As a thank you, we are giving MacBook Pro computers to twelve of our top contributors. We’ve also invited five of them to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2006 “on Apple’s dime”.

This is great news and a remarkable turn of events from the accusations less than a year ago that Apple’s WebKit team wasn’t “giving back” to the open source community.

Thank you, Darin and whoever else at Apple is responsible!

Posted in Chuckellania, Mac, OpenSource, Software, Web, WebKit & Safari

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