Apple's Open Source Stance
The cluster debates Apple's commitment to open source software, with criticisms of their hostility, limited original contributions, and closed practices contrasted by defenses highlighting releases like Darwin, WebKit, and opensource.apple.com.
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Apple does not want to contribute to the open source community?
Apple is hostile to open source. The Apple store terms of service are incompatible with GPL. And to develop applications you need to be using macOS on apple hardware and you need to purchase a developer license as well.
Open Source, wow that was unexpected from Apple
Of course it has, now that Apple owns it. Open source is not consistent with Apple's culture.
You are an idiot. Apple releases the source code to much of their technology: http://opensource.apple.com/ and http://www.macosforge.org/ and https://www.apple.com/opensource/
at least apple never pretended like iOS was open source
As Apple is not developing this software in the public, it would not make sense to put it on GitHub or any other code hosting site. The usual approach is that Apple throws bits over the wall where you can pick them up months after the end-user release. And even these code drops will be thoroughly cleaned before, so that for example kernel sources do not contain any trace of support for ARM or anything else related to the iPhone – all of that is strictly closed source.Software they take in fro
If it's open source, it's not developed by apple......
Very little original software from apple is open source.Things that they’ve adopted/forked/bought are but there’s not much they’ve started from scratch and released as OSS.There is almost no expectation of it from people who know Apple.Promising something unexpected and not delivering is undoubtedly more damaging than saying nothing.
But isn't Apple an Open Source company? ;)