Okay. Just make sure nobody searches up the KDE blogs from back then, it might derail your argument.
> Google is no white knight out to avenge the poor KHTML users from 2003.
Nope. They're here to molest your runtime. Portions of are not expected to survive the assault.
Normally, this is where I'd say "us Linux and Mac users should join arms and fight the corporations!" but that bridge has been burning for almost 20 years now. These days I'm quite content with Safari's fate regardless of how cruel it's treated; after all, the license allows it. No fuss, and no drama. Healthy as a horse, honest.
The developers moved on, that’s all, that’s why there was no fork and no momentum behind the original KHTML library. WebKit became quickly the gold standard at the time of the Acid tests, replaced KHTML in most places and nobody looked back. It remained functionally identical, except that it had orders of magnitude more resources than before.
There’s more blood and drama every time there’s a GTK update.
> These days I'm quite content with Safari's fate regardless of how cruel it's treated; after all, the license allows it. No fuss, and no drama.
Well, bitching is not very productive. We can regret a Blink monoculture, but it would have been exactly the same if Chrome kept using WebKit (if anything, that would have been worse), or if they switched to Gecko. The drama with Chrome has nothing to do with who forked whom.