WebKit
product on 4 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 13 times in 5 episodes since 2022
Acquired 10 
the Knowledge Project 1 
Latent Space 1 
No Priors 1
Mentions by year, every show
tap a year for its mentions
Acquired 10No Priors 1the Knowledge Project 1Latent Space 1
2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
every mention on every show, scene by scene, with the transcript →
3 statements about WebKit, every show
Gil: Major open-source technologies historically require giant corporate backers
“Almost every single major open source company has had a giant, ah, institutional backer. IBM was the biggest funder of Linux in the nineties as a counterbalance to Microsoft. And the biggest funders of all the open source browsers are Apple and Google with Web…”
Taylor: Open-source implementation consistently beats committee specifications
“Open source has won out over specifications. Like, you know, for a long time, there was a W three C working group on the HTML specification. And then, you know, once web kit became prevalent, the internet evolved a lot faster and it's not the expense of the st…”
Eich tried to build a WebKit-based browser at Mozilla with Apple engineers
“And I actually talked at one point with Dave Hyatt about doing this. But I couldn't recruit them away from Apple, and I tried to get Hewitt as well, and it would have been a WebKit-based Mozilla browser, but it was too risky. I couldn't get the talent I needed…”