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The point at which Apple's culture significantly shifted away from open source was the point at which they hid all their source code until after the OS was rele
by flatline3 14y ago
The point at which Apple's culture significantly shifted away from open source was the point at which they hid all their source code until after the OS was released.
This completely breaks the OSS community and contribution model.
Back in 2002, it was possible to contribute code to the current in-development version of Mac OS X. Now it's not, and iOS-specific OS code isn't provided at all.
- deelowe 14y agoOk? What's this have to do with android? An anecdote is just that. We can't compare past Apple behavior to that of Google. They are very different companies in many ways.
- flatline3 14y agoIt means that: A) closed development breaks the OSS community model -- that's not anecdote, just fact. B) We have a past example of the slippery slope of closed development.