CNET News: Apple Snub Stings Mozilla

“AOL Time Warner’s Mozilla project is facing new questions about
quality after Apple Computer’s release of a browser based on rival
open-source code.

“Apple last week unveiled its own browser, called Safari. The
company said it was based on the KHTML rendering engine that is the
core of Konqueror, an open-source file manager and Web browser for
the K Desktop Environment (KDE).

“In an e-mail congratulating KHTML engineers on their work and
its selection by Apple, Safari’s engineering manager touted the
technology over Mozilla and its rendering engine, Gecko…”

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