Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit

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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