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Title: Firefox Ported To Qt
Post by: Snappy on August 19, 2008, 10:52:26 am

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...efox-to-qt.html (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-nokia-helps-port-firefox-to-qt.html)

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Title: Firefox Ported To Qt
Post by: desertrat on August 20, 2008, 10:52:44 pm

Whilst the goal is good, the reason supposedly given by Nokia is not. Apple only "controls" WebKit in that they are the biggest/main/sole/whatever contributor. If Apple takes WebKit in a direction not favourable to Nokia they (ie Nokia) can always fork it. Does Nokia have any influence over how Firefox is developed? I should hope not, at least not more influence than any regular user. - unless of course they exert this influence in the form of contributed code.