Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit

Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by yreg on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:27AM (#30112879)

Is that rare? I would have thought many FAAG employees contribute to open source projects relevant to them as part of their work. After all that seems like the easiest way to influence the projects.

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by jhugo on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:39AM (#30112963)

And contributing changes back to an active project is much less effort than maintaining a fork in perpetuity.

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by londons_explore on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:45AM (#30113009)

Facebook.. Yes... Amazon... Yes Apple... Not so much. Netflix.. A little Google... Yes...

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by viktorcode on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:46PM (#30119430)

There's a good post on HN about what it cos Apple to make OS X a certified UNIX. Due to the secrecy of the project they had to use non-corporate accounts for committing bug fixes. The amount of changes was pretty big, but nobody excepts the authors can say it came from Apple.

Of course they will commit to open source projects if it suits their needs (if they use those projects). But people have different opinion on what Apple's needs are.

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by couchridr on Sunday January 30, 2022 @04:20AM (#30135289)

You probably mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984016

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by pjmlp on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:56AM (#30113083)

Amazon...it depends

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by swiftcoder on Friday January 28, 2022 @06:50AM (#30113496)

There's a pretty big distinction between FAANG employees contributing on their own time to things tangentially related too their job, and FAANG employees contributing on behalf of the company (i.e. being paid to do so as an official part of their day job).

Judging by the Engineering account being used to submit this patch, this is likely to be an example of the latter.

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by yreg on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:22AM (#30113713)

_as part of their work_ means during their billed work time.

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by swiftcoder on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:20AM (#30114873)

In that case, no, almost no FAANG employees do that. I would have had to file paperwork and receive legal signoff for each individual patch to any open-source projects that weren't owned by the company.

What does exist is specially "blessed" FAANG teams who are cleared to contribute to specific open-source projects that are critical to the business. Amazon has a team who contributes to the linux kernel for hypervisor support, for example.

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