I was trying to say that a significant portion of the OS is open-source - not just GPL'd. It's hardly "milking the community" if a good portion is returned back in a similar manner.
I wouldn't say that WebKit is worthless; its the primary rendering engine behind several browsers - which are gaining in popularity due to the success of OSS in general.
If the web was so worthless, MS wouldnt have bothered with IE and Netscape wouldn't have open sourced the code for Mozilla. Nor would a majority of the HN startups exist for that matter.
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I was trying to say that a significant portion of the OS is open-source - not just GPL'd. It's hardly "milking the community" if a good portion is returned back in a similar manner.
I wouldn't say that WebKit is worthless; its the primary rendering engine behind several browsers - which are gaining in popularity due to the success of OSS in general.
If the web was so worthless, MS wouldnt have bothered with IE and Netscape wouldn't have open sourced the code for Mozilla. Nor would a majority of the HN startups exist for that matter.