Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit

Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by threeseed on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:14AM (#30113659)

> My understanding is that Apple's policy is highly unusual in that "individual contribution as you doing something on your own time and equipment" are pretty much not allowed at all.

I am not sure exactly but I suspect this is employee-specific and may be only for those working on sensitive projects.

I worked at Apple years ago and it was never in my contract or mentioned to me. And there are plenty of more recent developers e.g. Holden Karau who were contributing to open source projects in their spare time whilst working at Apple.

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by saagarjha on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:24AM (#30113729)

Nope, rather, Apple engineers having side projects is employed-specific and usually requires some sort of special case for them to let you continue working on your thing. This has been a standard part of the contract for a while, and it’s nothing like a decade or two ago where you might have a DTS engineer make a side app or two for fun or give their own, unofficial opinions of the SDK on their personal blog without approval.

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Re:Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ... by rcarmo on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:51AM (#30117177)

I can confirm that. It was a reason why close acquaintances refused to join.

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