Well part of the reason that Apple is scared of the GPL is that they were forced to release not only source code related to Objective C back in the day since it linked to gcc, but also with WebKit since KHTML was under a LGPL license. From that point of view, I think everyone benefited because WebKit is an excellent rendering engine and if Apple wasn't forced to contribute source code back to it, they would have kept it proprietary and the benefits to themselves. Although I don't use Safari, I do think that Chromium is an excellent browser and benefits from the LGPL forcing Apple to play by the rules.

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