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They do contribute a decent bit to Kubernetes per https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/9/companies-table?orgId=1 https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/9/companies-table?orgI

They do contribute a decent bit to Kubernetes per https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/9/companies-table?orgId=1 https://k8s.devstats.cncf.io/d/9/companies-table?orgId=1, but they’re still prettyyyyyyy low on the list (31 as of this writing).

benatkin 5y ago
They're using opensource.apple.com it as a recruiting tool. Every big company embellishes things when recruiting.
- pxc 5y ago
  You can tell their 'contributions' are not in good faith if you follow any downstream project that actually tries to build (or even just build against) their open-source code. Lots of it requires proprietary tools to build, source releases lag way behind their binary counterparts, sources and headers sometimes just disappear with new versions, lots of downstream patches and hacks are required to get things working, etc. Every project that actually tries to build Darwin (the open-source components of the OS) into a usable (headless) OS has foundered, and often the death blow is Apple just ceasing to release required sources. Whenever one such project is kinda working it seems to be just barely getting by.
samhw 5y ago
It's not exactly much when DaoCloud Network Technologies Co. Ltd., a company which doesn't even have a website, beats them by almost 2x. For them to put it above WebKit - an incredibly important technology which they did build - is extremely bizarre. It does give the impression that this is a recruiting tool, and that they're trading on Kubernetes' name recognition.
- dieulot 5y ago
  “DaoCloud Network Technologies Co. Ltd.” is a translation from their Chinese name (道客网络科技有限). They do have a website: https://www.daocloud.io/ https://www.daocloud.io/ — https://www.daocloud.io/about https://www.daocloud.io/about
  - samhw 5y ago
    Ahhh, mea culpa, thanks for the correction. I can't edit my comment any longer - it looks like HN limits edits to a ~2hr window – but I would have if I could.

benatkin 5y ago

They're using opensource.apple.com it as a recruiting tool. Every big company embellishes things when recruiting.

pxc 5y ago
You can tell their 'contributions' are not in good faith if you follow any downstream project that actually tries to build (or even just build against) their open-source code. Lots of it requires proprietary tools to build, source releases lag way behind their binary counterparts, sources and headers sometimes just disappear with new versions, lots of downstream patches and hacks are required to get things working, etc. Every project that actually tries to build Darwin (the open-source components of the OS) into a usable (headless) OS has foundered, and often the death blow is Apple just ceasing to release required sources. Whenever one such project is kinda working it seems to be just barely getting by.

samhw 5y ago

It's not exactly much when DaoCloud Network Technologies Co. Ltd., a company which doesn't even have a website, beats them by almost 2x. For them to put it above WebKit - an incredibly important technology which they did build - is extremely bizarre. It does give the impression that this is a recruiting tool, and that they're trading on Kubernetes' name recognition.

dieulot 5y ago
“DaoCloud Network Technologies Co. Ltd.” is a translation from their Chinese name (道客网络科技有限). They do have a website: https://www.daocloud.io/ https://www.daocloud.io/ — https://www.daocloud.io/about https://www.daocloud.io/about
- samhw 5y ago
  Ahhh, mea culpa, thanks for the correction. I can't edit my comment any longer - it looks like HN limits edits to a ~2hr window – but I would have if I could.