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Source? It's a welcome thing but very much not like Apple.

• robertoandred 11d ago
  Apple has a long long history of supporting open source.
  • cute_boi 11d ago
    can you please tell us what have they done for open source except LLVM.
    • burtness 11d ago
      and CUPS
    • juiceland 11d ago
      Swift, WebKit, Darwin/XNU, MLX, FoundationDB, Container, Pkl, libdispatch (GCD), CUPS, CareKit, ResearchKit, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Spark, Netty, Solr…
      • lokar 10d ago
        Sure, but other then language tools, databases, printing, container orchestration, what have the Roman’s ever done for us?
        • Danox 10d ago
          If you have the will, and the knowledge all of those tools can be used to your advantage but no one has for the most part they want someone else to do it for them for free.
        • bigyabai 10d ago
          ~85% of the things they mentioned were Mac-exclusive software, so that's more of a question for yourself than the greater FOSS community.
      • cute_boi 10d ago
        If you see google and microsoft contribution to OSS, apple contribution to OSS is basically nothing.
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    • mikestew 11d ago
      Probably took me less time to search “Apple open source” and click the first link than it did to type your question: https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/
      • cute_boi 10d ago
        Basically nothing except swift and llvm.
        • mikestew 10d ago
          I mean, if you can’t read I could see how one might walk away with that impression.
          • cute_boi 10d ago
            My argument was apple is doing nothing much for open source, then you suddenly come with link that shows Apple has done nothing for open source compared to other company like Microsoft or Google or even Meta.
            • mikestew 10d ago
              …compared to other company like Microsoft or Google or even Meta. So you can read, you just moved the goalposts when you were shown to be mistaken.
              • cute_boi 10d ago
                mistaken? Looks like you can't comprehend goalposts with common sense. Apple isn't random acme company we are comparing here.
        • happymellon 10d ago
          They are able to rebrand other peoples stuff!
    • gehsty 10d ago
      LLVM / Swift / Webkit & XNU (I don’t really know of anything using Xnu up stream but the others are large open source projects?)
    • GeekyBear 10d ago
      Clang, OpenCL, MLX
      • cozzyd 10d ago
        Don't they ship a propetietary clang variant with weirdass version numbers? That was true at least at some point. Fortunately most Mac users on my experiments have given up attempting to compile any code in their Macs after SIP etc made it too annoying so rarely have to support them anymore.
      • bigyabai 10d ago
        > "What has Apple ever done for Open Source?" > proceeds to name three of the worst-managed projects in the history of FOSS software