<story><title>Apple is doubling down on open source</title><url>http://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/apple-is-doubling-down-on-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgettableuser</author><text>The only thing that has doubled down here is the marketing of the fact they are contributing to open source. They have both been large users and contributors to open source since the switch to OS X (NeXT acquisition).&lt;p&gt;Just off the top of my head, projects they have had a large hand in: WebKit &amp;amp; JavaScriptCore, Objective-C, CUPS, LLVM, Clang, Bonjour&amp;#x2F;Zeroconf, Darwin, launchd, libdispatch, CoreFoundation, dtrace.&lt;p&gt;And more recently Apple Lossless Encoder, LZFSE compression, and of course Swift.&lt;p&gt;And this is only a tiny fraction of what they are users of.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple is doubling down on open source</title><url>http://www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/article/apple-is-doubling-down-on-open-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>If they are &amp;quot;doubling down on open source&amp;quot;, maybe they could get open source Darwin working again? From what I&amp;#x27;ve heard, while they still release some of the source code, it is no longer in a form in which it can easily be compiled into a usable operating system – e.g. some of the components they release source for can&amp;#x27;t even be built because they rely on unreleased Apple private header files – basically, things have gone backwards on this front compared to earlier versions of OS X.&lt;p&gt;(From what I&amp;#x27;ve heard, I don&amp;#x27;t know how true it is, Apple became less open with Darwin, around the time of the PPC-Intel transition, out of fear it was making life easier for people trying to use OS X on non-Apple hardware easier.)</text></comment>