Re:Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code
by sudhirj on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:22AM
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He succeeded at open sourcing those two projects. Not sure why he left, but other than WebKit, which was probably a defense against Microsoft and IE, don’t think anything else can come out of Apple.
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Re:Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code
by bluGill on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:36AM
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WebKit started as a fork from khtml (from kde). Apple didn't have a choice about open sourcing Webkit because they started with GPL2 code. They would have kept it closed source if they could, but that would have taken a few years of development, while they could start with khtml and get a great browser in just a few months.
I expect in a few years (5-10) Apple will do an audit, discover that only a small amount of code isn't written by Apple, and replace that with inhouse code and then relicense to something propitiatory. Time will tell.
Re:Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code
by wenc on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:20AM
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Well I guess there's Foundationdb [1] and cups [2] but those were acquisitions.
[1] https://github.com/apple/foundationdb [2] https://github.com/apple/cups