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With the exception of Tamarin, I don't recognize any of Adobe's open source contributions (perhaps that's because I'm not a Flash developer). Apple on the othe
by jonhohle 16y ago
With the exception of Tamarin, I don't recognize any of Adobe's open source contributions (perhaps that's because I'm not a Flash developer).
Apple on the other hand has released a lot of great software under open source licenses: WebKit, launchd, bonjour, Darwin, libdispatch, etc.
Adobe calling Flash open compared to the corpus of actually open software that Apple has produced is disingenuous, in my opinion.
- vetinari 16y agoOn the other hand, Apple had to release WebKit, due to KHTML license (the same for CUPS). Other Apple open source software has exactly zero adoption outside OSX, which is also a reason why they are open source. Apple knew they will be not adopted.
- glhaynes 16y agoI believe some substantial chunks of Apple open source (Grand Central Dispatch and LLVM) have been or are being adopted by FreeBSD. I'm not sure how much, though, these are part of the FreeBSD project itself.