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Why would Apple have developers working on their hardware running Linux? Apple doesn’t use Linux. They aren’t the biggest oss dev, but they have a decent amoun
by prepend 1y ago
Why would Apple have developers working on their hardware running Linux? Apple doesn’t use Linux.
They aren’t the biggest oss dev, but they have a decent amount of contributions. [0][1]
It’s hard to compare how much Google vs Apple contributes to open source, but not sure why anyone would think Apple “contributes back almost nothing.”
[0] https://github.com/appleopen https://github.com/appleopen
[1] https://opensource.apple.com/projects/ https://opensource.apple.com/projects/
- hu3 1y agoPlease stare at your own links for a second. Let me help you: https://github.com/orgs/appleopen/repositories?q=sort%3Astars https://github.com/orgs/appleopen/repositories?q=sort%3Astar... Their most popular repo in that entire account has 8 stars. I have multiple personal repos with more usage than that. As for the other link. More than half of those projects are Apple specific.
- fnfjfk 1y agohttps://github.com/swiftlang/swift https://github.com/swiftlang/swift
- prepend 1y agoLook at the second link. Many of their projects aren’t in appleopen. That’s great you have personal repos with more than 8 stars!
- saagarjha 1y agoThose aren't official repositories; they're just someone's mirror.