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Apple is a bad actor in contributing back to free software; however, they do contribute back. Granted, it's by throwing things over the wall in a way that's usu

by kick 7y ago

Apple is a bad actor in contributing back to free software; however, they do contribute back. Granted, it's by throwing things over the wall in a way that's usually after upstream and it have diverged so much it can no longer be upstreamed, but still under free licenses.

ComputerGuru 7y ago
Unless something furthers the development of their ecosystem, eg all the llvm contributions.
- scarface74 7y ago
  You mean like every other for profit company.....
- kick 7y ago
  They released launchd under a free license, and it was one of the most interesting developments in the past two decades, despite it not actually contributing to the development of their own ecosystem to free it.
scarface74 7y ago
This is old news where the Khtml people were complaining about WebKit.
- kick 7y ago
  A situation I remember well (and bitterly)!