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Then why does apple play such hardball against open source software [1]? If they really are just a hardware company they should be supporting open source. [1]
by sschueller 8y ago
Then why does apple play such hardball against open source software [1]? If they really are just a hardware company they should be supporting open source.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894721
- icebraining 8y agoApple dislikes the GPL, not all open source (they work on Webkit, LLVM+Clang, CUPS, Swift, FoundationDB, and a few others). It's not so different from other companies (e.g. on Android, Google used the Linux kernel, but replaced all other userspace components of the traditional GNU/Linux distro by non-copyleft versions, including developing their own libc).