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> [...] even Microsoft does a better job here than Apple. How so?

• smoldesu 4y ago
  For one, they helped build Linux drivers for NTFS. Despite Apple promising to document and open-source APFS, they still have not gotten around to it (which makes interop with Macs really frustrating). There are lots of little things, too - Microsoft packages desktop apps for Linux and made pretty great OSS contributions like the Monaco editor. The list could go on, but this really shouldn't be surprising. Apple doesn't even treat upstream BSD with respect, it's insane to think that they would respect Linux.
  • bch 4y ago
    > Apple doesn't even treat upstream BSD with respect, it's insane to think that they would respect Linux. Meanwhile from Microsoft: * https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/ * https://www.netbsd.org/ports/emips/index.html https://www.netbsd.org/ports/emips/index.html
  • my123 4y ago
    For APFS, they did release some docs at: https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/Apple-File-System-Reference.pdf https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/Apple-File-Sys...
  • minusf 4y ago
    yes, microsoft is truly amazing, where is their patent free exfat implementation? that is the only true modern interop fs and they keep it hostage.
    • mixmastamyk 4y ago
      Been in the kernel for long enough to trickle out to recent distributions. Is there something missing?
      • minusf 4y ago
        i see i was out of date on this, thanks for the heads up. better late than never.