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Do you know that Apple releases a lot of open source software and even maintains the open source CUPS print server, which is heavily used in Linux and Unix syst

Do you know that Apple releases a lot of open source software and even maintains the open source CUPS print server, which is heavily used in Linux and Unix systems? Furthermore, just about all of their past releases of MacOS, iOS and OS X Server are open sourced as well. There's a great incentive to open source software. It literally invites developers to make your platform better for you, for free. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but you gotta give Apple some credit here where its due. https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/

saagarjha 7y ago
> just about all of their past releases of MacOS, iOS and OS X Server are open sourced as well More accurately, specific projects from certain releases of macOS and iOS have had parts of them posted online.
kick 7y ago
Do you know that Apple releases a lot of open source software False. Proportionately they release an insignificant amount. even maintains the open source CUPS print server, which is heavily used in Linux and Unix systems? This is only because no vendor or developer would use anything compatible with mac OS were it only supporting macOS. just about all of their past releases of MacOS, iOS and OS X Server are open sourced as well This is false, and you haven't done due diligence. (XNU being free software (though usually not anything touching ARM) does not mean macOS, iOS and OS X Server are free software. It literally invites developers to make your platform better for you, for free. Last I checked Apple doesn't take external commits. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but you gotta give Apple some credit here where its due. They are due no credit.