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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by sschueller on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:50AM (#18863314)
Then why does apple play such hardball against open source software [1]? If they really are just a hardware company they should be supporting open source.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894721

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Re:Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones by icebraining on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:09AM (#18863867)
Apple dislikes the GPL, not all open source (they work on Webkit, LLVM+Clang, CUPS, Swift, FoundationDB, and a few others).

It's not so different from other companies (e.g. on Android, Google used the Linux kernel, but replaced all other userspace components of the traditional GNU/Linux distro by non-copyleft versions, including developing their own libc).

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