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Corporate Open Source is Dead (m.youtube.com)

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

From that company you love to hate:

Apple Releases Open Source AI Models That Run On-Device

Believe it or not, Apple has been, historically, one of the largest and consistent contributors to a number of open source projects for decades. Yes, Apple does a lot of… problematic stuff and deserves a lot of the criticism it receives, but, to their credit, they do support the FOSS community in many ways, and always have, especially by open-sourcing many of their own technologies, albeit often quietly.

There’s WebKit, HTML, OpenGL (to which they were to primary contributors for almost a decade in the mid 00s-10s). They also are pretty much the only ones who decide new emojis and always have been since the other 5 or 6 UNICODE emoji board members don’t care to contribute.

Edit:

a list of current FOSS projects at Apple

Apple at GitHub:

https://github.com/apple

More repos of older projects:

https://www.macosforge.org/