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Re:Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad ... by Noctix on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:42AM (#13937613)
It is Apple, what did you expect?
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Re:Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad ... by rimliu on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:03AM (#13937682)
Open sourced Swift—is that Apple or not, in your opinion?
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Re:Apple has acquired Workflow, an automation tool for iPad ... by Infinitesimus on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:21AM (#13939119)
I think open sourcing a language you built is rather different from acquiring companies and locking out competition.

Apple has more incentive to open source Swift than they do to let anyone use content from a company they acquire (remember FoundationDB's fate?). I think Authentec went the same route but I am uncertain.

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