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by datashovel 4110 days ago
Sure, I can't sit here and say LLVM or CUPS are not great.

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...

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Can you name any Open Source programmes created by any other large tech company that have gained such widespread adoption?