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I'm surprised to see Apple using Github; particularly now that Microsoft owns it. It is where the developers are though. And it certainly beats a hidden downl
by SquareWheel 8y ago
I'm surprised to see Apple using Github; particularly now that Microsoft owns it. It is where the developers are though. And it certainly beats a hidden download on opensource.apple.com.
- dwaite 8y agoThe opensource.apple.com site is really more for software that they snapshot and release (open source, not open process). They've had other projects for a long time developed in the open, and used to run https://www.macosforge.org https://www.macosforge.org to host them. Some of those were acquired (either as a core developer in the case of CUPS, a codebase in the case of WebKit) but I'm not sure of other examples of open sourcing an acquired technology like this.
- zepto 8y agoI’d say Microsoft owning it makes it more attractive rather than less. Less risk of it being acquired by some unknown company in the future or collapsing through mismanagement.
- neurobashing 8y agoI'd go one step further and say that to Apple, Microsoft is "the devil you know". Apple uses Azure for some of its services, for example.
- lloeki 8y agoThis is not exactly a new thing: https://github.com/apple/swift https://github.com/apple/swift There's also: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb https://github.com/apple/foundationdb