[giancarlostoro]

They acquired the company that made FoundationDB:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/apple-acquires-durable-dat...

[sjroot]

This makes sense. Thank you for clarifying!

[cmiller1]

Now this is the kind of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish I like. I wish more companies bought technologies just to open source them.

[manigandham]

The 4 year gap in the middle is unfortunate though, there could've been much more momentum by now had Apple kept it open all this time.

[zepto]

There was no gap.

Also, it’s just as possible that open sourcing it earlier could have just bogged down the decision making because of alignment issues and caused it to fail.

Open sourcing is great and the more companies like Apple do it the better, but assuming that earlier is always better doesn’t seem justified.

[jmull]

> ...4 year gap...

I don't think it was open in the first place, was it?

[jbverschoor]

It was iirc

[ryanworl]

FoundationDB was not open source before it was acquired by Apple. They had a free version you could download and use, though.