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It is interesting to me that I read people criticizing Microsoft for their open sourcing code as doing it for marketing reasons---which seems accurate---but not

It is interesting to me that I read people criticizing Microsoft for their open sourcing code as doing it for marketing reasons---which seems accurate---but not criticizing Google or Apple or whoever else when they open source code.

kick 7y ago
Apple doesn't release code under Free licenses for marketing purposes: I'd be surprised if anyone in the marketing department of Apple even realized that they were doing so.
- wvenable 7y ago
  Apple releases code under free licenses because they are required to and do exactly that minimum required.
  - kick 7y ago
    That's not entirely true. launchd was released under a free license, and it was one of the most interesting innovations in software in a long while, for example.
    - pjmlp 7y ago
      So now copying what Sun, Aix, Tru64 and HP-UX already did is an innovation, I guess it goes with the muster of many Apple "innovations".
      - kick 7y ago
        You're completely wrong in Sun's case, SMF is nothing like launchd.
        pjmlp 7y ago
        It looks quite similar to me in concept.
frandroid 7y ago
There are plenty of people on this very forum regularly criticizing Google and Apple's open source efforts...