Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel

Re:Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel by smitherfield on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:49PM (#15374408)

Apple's made some pretty big genuine contributions to open-source: WebKit, LLVM[1]/clang, Swift, OpenCL.[2]

[1] Yes, technically "not Apple" in the sense that Node.js isn't Joyent.

[2] Admittedly partial credit at best since they've orphaned it in favor of their proprietary Metal API. I'd guess however that Metal will get open-sourced pretty soon.

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Re:Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel by bemused on Saturday September 30, 2017 @03:22PM (#15374585)

webkit was based on khtml (LGPL) - not much of a choice for apple

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Re:Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel by gsnedders on Saturday September 30, 2017 @05:19PM (#15375038)

For a long time, they just did source-code dumps whenever they made a binary release (i.e., did what is required by the LGPL). They actively chose to move it to being run as an open-source project, with public history, public bug tracking, and public contributions.

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Re:Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel by smitherfield on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:46PM (#15374903)

They could've written a rendering engine from scratch, or (in 2001-2002) acquired Netscape or Opera for a song.

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Re:Darwin-xnu: The Darwin Kernel by Fnoord on Saturday September 30, 2017 @06:42PM (#15375358)

Did Apple have a lot of cash in 2001/2? IIRC that is before the iPod hype.

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