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by CodeGenie
4110 days ago
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It surprises me when people claim Apple is not a good Open Source candidate. As an example, think of Android. Google used Apple's Open Source LLVM to port Linux to an ARM architecture, then used Apple's Open Source CUPS as the print system (as do most Linux distros) and used Apple's Open Source WebKit to run the browser. Google also used WebKit in Chrome until they forked it. Can you name any Open Source programmes created by any other large tech company that have gained such widespread adoption? |
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My point is that when you're the richest company, you should be at the forefront of the open source community. Instead my impression is that Apple, as compared to any other major tech company in the US with comparable market cap, is very much in the background.
I would point us to github, but oh yeah Apple doesn't seem to have an official profile on that website while google, microsoft, facebook, et al....
"unofficial mirror" https://github.com/opensource-apple
"genuine" https://github.com/Microsoft/ https://github.com/google https://github.com/facebook
Also I guess it would be hard to argue that Apple originated LLVM given its history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM
And it looks like CUPS is not 100% open source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS
Here's an interesting article with some talking points.
http://readwrite.com/2014/05/05/apple-github-ios-android-dev...