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I was led to believe Rosetta (1) left us so quickly because a majority of the tech behind it was licensed from someone else (Transitive?). There's a high chanc
by soneil 6y ago
I was led to believe Rosetta (1) left us so quickly because a majority of the tech behind it was licensed from someone else (Transitive?). There's a high chance open sourcing it was never an option.
- acomjean 6y agoI hadn't heard that, but I wasn't really paying attention. I looked into Transitive and they did do Rosetta1. So it wasn't Apples to open source (and apple was in a more precarious financial position back then). . They're an IBM company now which makes since IBM could use PPC translation. I know a few people who really liked that instruction set. https://www.linkedin.com/company/transitive/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/transitive/ because http://www.transitive.com http://www.transitive.com goes to IBM now....