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Apple's made some pretty big genuine contributions to open-source: WebKit, LLVM[1]/clang, Swift, OpenCL.[2] [1] Yes, technically "not Apple" in the sense that
by smitherfield 9y ago
Apple's made some pretty big genuine contributions to open-source: WebKit, LLVM[1]/clang, Swift, OpenCL.[2]
[1] Yes, technically "not Apple" in the sense that Node.js isn't Joyent.
[2] Admittedly partial credit at best since they've orphaned it in favor of their proprietary Metal API. I'd guess however that Metal will get open-sourced pretty soon.
- bemused 9y agowebkit was based on khtml (LGPL) - not much of a choice for apple
- smitherfield 9y agoThey could've written a rendering engine from scratch, or (in 2001-2002) acquired Netscape or Opera for a song.
- Fnoord 9y agoDid Apple have a lot of cash in 2001/2? IIRC that is before the iPod hype.
- gsnedders 9y agoFor a long time, they just did source-code dumps whenever they made a binary release (i.e., did what is required by the LGPL). They actively chose to move it to being run as an open-source project, with public history, public bug tracking, and public contributions.