> done by apple, with access to their internal documentation
I'm pretty sure there was some antitrust investigation over Microsoft doing the same thing: giving their own software an unfair advantage on their operating system due to the insights the Office team could gain from the kernel team.
Microsoft made a convincing argument that the relevant teams never talked to each other, and the Office developers just reverse-engineered undocumented Windows APIs, the same any other developer would have had to.
LtWorf|3 years ago
wongarsu|3 years ago
I'm pretty sure there was some antitrust investigation over Microsoft doing the same thing: giving their own software an unfair advantage on their operating system due to the insights the Office team could gain from the kernel team.
Microsoft made a convincing argument that the relevant teams never talked to each other, and the Office developers just reverse-engineered undocumented Windows APIs, the same any other developer would have had to.
nottorp|3 years ago
I'm gonna do a Stallman and post a reminder that webkit is an evolution of KDE's khtml. Not completely "done by apple" or even started by them.
saagarjha|3 years ago