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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by annabellish on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:36AM (#14837278)
The internet primarily runs on open source software. Your browser is primarily open source software, unless it's IE/Edge, but let's be serious here. Your phone - primarily open source, unless it's WP/BB, but again, let's be serious.

The desktop/laptop you're using right now probably isn't open source, but much of the important software running on it is, and most of the computers it talks to are, and most of the other computers, obvious or hidden, in your life are too.

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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by StavrosK on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:34AM (#14837542)
Not to mention that pretty much all of the services you use are mostly a glue layer over open source projects/libraries/services, including its OS and all those services.
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by ClassyJacket on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:46AM (#14837947)
"Your phone - primarily open source"

Is the iPhone actually primarily open source? There's certainly parts of iOS that are but I had no idea it was the majority of it.

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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by striking on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:40AM (#14838339)
Mac OS is made of large swathes of open source code... but before publishing the source of the kernel, Apple runs a script to strip out anything iOS-specific.

That's just one example but I think it portrays Apple's iOS-OSS relationship pretty well.

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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by lucb1e on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:33AM (#14838287)
The vast majority of phone is Android, though. One of the reasons I'd always recommend Android to friends and family is the open source component, even if said friends and family have no direct benefit from it (only indirect, through open source stuff being used and us being able to look at it and improve it).
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by codegladiator on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:35AM (#14838300)
He meant android I guess.
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