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> I hope we can all agree that Apple has never really been an open standards company

Show me this for Flash:

http://trac.webkit.org/

Or this:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1063/

And check out paragraph 2:

http://webkit.org/projects/goals.html

Fire up Chrome to check out how many re-implementations of WebKit are out there based on this open source and open standards base.




1. You didn't show the same thing for Flash. SWF spec in a PDF is not the same as the open source code hub for the web rendering engine used by Google, RIM, etc.

2. You didn't show the same thing for open source. OS X is arguably the family jewels. The equivalent for Adobe would be CS 5, not Tamarin or a Flex SDK.

3. You didn't show the same thing for the open source goals. That press release blurb and list of "partners" like Atlantic Records, Paramount and Lionsgate does not correlate to the paragraph promising to give WebKit back with BSD and LGPL style licensing, and listing corporate "industry leaders" sponsors is not the same as running a public chatroom and IRC channel for webkit.




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