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shmerl on Jan 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s up with Firefox?

Not sure what you mean exactly. Let's say someone comes along, and re-implements all same APIs from scratch as open source. They'll be public, right?

But as TD-Linux said, Apple simply will refuse to accept it anyway.

yoklov on Jan 28, 2017 [–]

Right, but you can't implement a lot of the APIs without calling into private kernel functions.

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