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This is a typical case of openwashing. Just like Microsoft, Apple only opensources what they are legally obliged to or sideprojects they don't care about at all

This is a typical case of openwashing. Just like Microsoft, Apple only opensources what they are legally obliged to or sideprojects they don't care about at all for business. And just last year, they silently stopped dedicating resources to CUPS (the printing server). The site says: > You can access the source code for our operating systems and developer tools Yes of course please send me the entire code for MacOS + XCode. I'm waiting! Fuck you hypocritical liars.

zionic 5y ago
Apple would never allow the 3 interns working on Xcode to open source it, they couldn’t stand the embarrassment.
intvocoder 5y ago
The creator of CUPS was employed by Apple, to work on CUPS. He left, and doesn't work on CUPS anymore. It's not some cloak-and-dagger thing.
- pxc 5y ago
  The creator of CUPS does still work on CUPS. He had to fork the repo in order to keep working on CUPS after Apple didn't accept any patches and added only a single commit to CUPS in the course of an entire year. his fork: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups Cloak and dagger? no Terrible stewardship of an open-source project? yes Surprising, given Apple's history? not at all
  - GeekyBear 5y ago
    Apple moved to the Internet Printing Protocol (which they brand as AirPrint), just as Google did (after they killed Google Cloud Print) and Microsoft (branded as Universal Print). The last thing Apple did with CUPS is add functionality to allow legacy printers that don't natively support IPP to function as an IPP printer. >Products using the Internet Printing Protocol include CUPS (which is part of Apple macOS and many BSD and Linux distributions and is the reference implementation for most versions of IPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol Going forward, the Printer Working Group is in charge of IPP, and the creator of CUPS now works for them. https://www.pwg.org/ipp/ https://www.pwg.org/ipp/
MikusR 5y ago
Microsoft open sourced "Service Fabric" that " Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Cortana, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, Dynamics 365, Skype for Business and other" run on. Also .net.

zionic 5y ago

Apple would never allow the 3 interns working on Xcode to open source it, they couldn’t stand the embarrassment.

intvocoder 5y ago

The creator of CUPS was employed by Apple, to work on CUPS. He left, and doesn't work on CUPS anymore. It's not some cloak-and-dagger thing.

pxc 5y ago
The creator of CUPS does still work on CUPS. He had to fork the repo in order to keep working on CUPS after Apple didn't accept any patches and added only a single commit to CUPS in the course of an entire year. his fork: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups Cloak and dagger? no Terrible stewardship of an open-source project? yes Surprising, given Apple's history? not at all
- GeekyBear 5y ago
  Apple moved to the Internet Printing Protocol (which they brand as AirPrint), just as Google did (after they killed Google Cloud Print) and Microsoft (branded as Universal Print). The last thing Apple did with CUPS is add functionality to allow legacy printers that don't natively support IPP to function as an IPP printer. >Products using the Internet Printing Protocol include CUPS (which is part of Apple macOS and many BSD and Linux distributions and is the reference implementation for most versions of IPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol Going forward, the Printer Working Group is in charge of IPP, and the creator of CUPS now works for them. https://www.pwg.org/ipp/ https://www.pwg.org/ipp/

MikusR 5y ago

Microsoft open sourced "Service Fabric" that " Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Cortana, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, Dynamics 365, Skype for Business and other" run on. Also .net.