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but Jobs did famously institute a culture there that is in opposition to open source technology Considering how much use they make of open source technology (O

by swombat 15y ago

but Jobs did famously institute a culture there that is in opposition to open source technology Considering how much use they make of open source technology (OS X is built on BSD, and they were the major force in turning WebKit into what it is), that seems a little exaggerated... I don't think Apple is opposed to Open Source technology in any way - they're fairly neutral about it. Microsoft called the GPL a cancer - I don't think any such statements ever came out of Apple.

prodigal_erik 15y ago
Microsoft may have flamed the GPL, but Apple set an app store policy that (among other oppressive problems) bans all GPL'd code. I think the people in charge held a grudge from when they ran NeXT and had to be threatened with legal action before they'd release the objc frontend for gcc.