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Actually open source has been a huge part of Apple ever since they acquired NeXT (or was it the other way around). The majority of OSX/iOS is open source and th
by taligent 14y ago
Actually open source has been a huge part of Apple ever since they acquired NeXT (or was it the other way around). The majority of OSX/iOS is open source and they have contributed in big ways to a number of projects e.g. LLVM, OpenCL, GCD, LaunchD, ZeroConf.
http://www.opensource.apple.com http://www.opensource.apple.com
It's really just a perception problem on your part.
- archangel_one 14y ago> The majority of OSX/iOS is open source Really? Large chunks of both are not, so how do you know it's the majority of it that is?
- neohaven 14y agoThat said, it is rather simple to consider : as a general idea, the UI layer (Cocoa for OS X, CocoaTouch for iOS) and a few other things are closed. The rest is pretty open, as darwin in general is OSS.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoNot the lower "Darwin" layers of iOS, they've never released that.
- neohaven 14y agoThe "darwin layer" in iOS is fairly inexistant. When have you started a shell on a non-jailbroken iPhone? ;)
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoI actually meant all the lower layers including kernel and drivers etc. Which do exist, and have not been released. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) "Darwin is now only available as source code,[4] except for the ARM variant, which has not been released in any form separately from iOS."