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Apple made Mastodon guide (apps.apple.com)
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Is Apple going to make a Mastodon server? I think that'd be pretty cool. In Apple fashion, it would require an app only available on iPhone and Mac, and this app wouldn't be able to connect to third party instances.

But it would move like half the US to Mastodon, which would be great.

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Four of five times, you're right about Apple's M.O. But every once in awhile they surprise me like with their WebKit activity.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

History lesson

WebKit is only open source because its a fork of KHTML, originally developed by the KDE project ^[0]^ for the Konqueror browser ^[1]^. KHTLM was developed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) ^[2]^, which limits companies from taking the hard work of open source projects and claiming them as their own without giving back to the community.

If Apple's surprising you with the "open code" released under the WebKit project, it's because they're legally requried to. We can thank the Free Software Foundation's LGPL for that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

No doubt. I was careful not to give Apple credit for WebKit's open source status, but nonetheless it remains surprising to me that Apple participates in open source software all.