Apple would never allow the 3 interns working on Xcode to open source it, they couldn’t stand the embarrassment.
Microsoft open sourced "Service Fabric" that " Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Cortana, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, Dynamics 365, Skype for Business and other" run on. Also .net.
Re:Apple Open Source
by intvocoder on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:26AM
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The creator of CUPS was employed by Apple, to work on CUPS. He left, and doesn't work on CUPS anymore. It's not some cloak-and-dagger thing.
The creator of CUPS does still work on CUPS. He had to fork the repo in order to keep working on CUPS after Apple didn't accept any patches and added only a single commit to CUPS in the course of an entire year.
his fork: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups
Cloak and dagger? no
Terrible stewardship of an open-source project? yes
Surprising, given Apple's history? not at all
Apple moved to the Internet Printing Protocol (which they brand as AirPrint), just as Google did (after they killed Google Cloud Print) and Microsoft (branded as Universal Print).
The last thing Apple did with CUPS is add functionality to allow legacy printers that don't natively support IPP to function as an IPP printer.
>Products using the Internet Printing Protocol include CUPS (which is part of Apple macOS and many BSD and Linux distributions and is the reference implementation for most versions of IPP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol
Going forward, the Printer Working Group is in charge of IPP, and the creator of CUPS now works for them.
> You can access the source code for our operating systems and developer tools
Yes of course please send me the entire code for MacOS + XCode. I'm waiting! Fuck you hypocritical liars.