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CUPS is owned by Apple. Mach, OpenSSH, OpenSSL & Apache are not copyleft. The success of Apple has nothing to do with the copyleft software they use, most code

CUPS is owned by Apple. Mach, OpenSSH, OpenSSL & Apache are not copyleft. The success of Apple has nothing to do with the copyleft software they use, most code used by Apple has been based on permissively licensed code or written by them. The main software asset Apple has is Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which are as far from copyleft as you can get. Apple could replace every piece of copyleft software they have left in OS X tomorrow and no mainstream news source would bother to inform of this. That's how relevant copyleft software is to the success of Apple. Now if you say "open source has been an integral part on the success of Apple", I would agree with that. Still Apple owes its success to it's own code not to code from others. If taking open source code and modifying it a little was all it took to make a successful company, all of us would be millionaires.

laumars 11y ago
> CUPS is owned by Apple CUPS was bought by Apple. It was originally GPL software and was incorporated into OS X a few years before Apple bought it. > Mach, OpenSSH, OpenSSL & Apache are not copyleft. Fair point, I did actually mean open source in the more general sense than the copyleft subset of open licences. > The success of Apple has nothing to do with the copyleft software they use....Now if you say "open source has been an integral part on the success of Apple", I would agree with that. I sense you're nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking :) In any case, I think we agree the same point. edit: why is this comment getting downvoted so much yet not one single correction posted? Please guys, don't just downvote because you dislike the tangent I started in my previous post. Take this comment in isolation and if you still disagree with me then explain why.
- carussell 11y ago
  Someone has gone through and downvoted multiple comments that mention Apple's purchase of the rights to the CUPS code. I don't get it. To whomever is taking issue with this, could you, uh, you know... say why?

laumars 11y ago

> CUPS is owned by Apple CUPS was bought by Apple. It was originally GPL software and was incorporated into OS X a few years before Apple bought it. > Mach, OpenSSH, OpenSSL & Apache are not copyleft. Fair point, I did actually mean open source in the more general sense than the copyleft subset of open licences. > The success of Apple has nothing to do with the copyleft software they use....Now if you say "open source has been an integral part on the success of Apple", I would agree with that. I sense you're nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking :) In any case, I think we agree the same point. edit: why is this comment getting downvoted so much yet not one single correction posted? Please guys, don't just downvote because you dislike the tangent I started in my previous post. Take this comment in isolation and if you still disagree with me then explain why.

carussell 11y ago
Someone has gone through and downvoted multiple comments that mention Apple's purchase of the rights to the CUPS code. I don't get it. To whomever is taking issue with this, could you, uh, you know... say why?