Turns out Safari Reader is based on Open Source project Readability

Keep looking for Apple drama. Because it's not like almost all of Apple's browser stack is itself open source, or like one of Apple's arch-competitors is using Apple's open source code to compete with them. They must just not get the concept.

Apple acknowledged them in Safari, and the Readability guy is happy about it ( http://twitter.com/arc90/status/15670524396 ).

Drama averted.

This is just over dramatic link bait.

There's probably nothing legally wrong with what Apple did

Since when is using open source code while properly attributing the authors "probably legal"? Last time I checked, it was most certainly legal and encouraged even.

Would it be asking too much to wait for the authors of Readability to do the complaining? The referenced tweet seemed positive about the discovery of the attribution.

Somewhat self-promotional, but I have become the defacto maintainer of a Ruby port of Readability.

http://github.com/iterationlabs/ruby-readability

I find it hard to believe that the guys from Arc90 didn't know that it was Readability the second they saw it; maybe it's because I've used Readability for a while, but I just knew the second that I saw that familiar look and feel of the title and text that it was Readability powering it.