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Given that all of those are already open sourced, do you know how bad it would look to close source them now? Especially Webkit/KHTML - that would be a PR disas
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Given that all of those are already open sourced, do you know how bad it would look to close source them now? Especially Webkit/KHTML - that would be a PR disaster. I don't keep track of what Apple does - have they open sourced anything within the last few years? If not, I think they fit right in with the other companies.
- bch 13y agoGrand Central Dispatch[0] is the latest (2009) I can think of... [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
- justincormack 13y ago"We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard" 2010. Oh yes, that never happened.
- Alphasite_ 13y agoTheir Clang Arm64 back end as well, among other things.
- wsc981 13y agoApple also open-sourced their boot process software (launchd[0], which was fully developed in-house IIRC. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd