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Re:Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represent... by smoldesu on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @05:42PM (#32918189)
> which was developed with Apple support and which I guess has some value…

Clang was a community project, same as LLVM. Apple came along and threw money at it because of FOMO (very similar to CUPS) and eventually a XNU toolchain followed. Apple didn't really provide any value beyond support that already existed for FOSS operating systems.

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Re:Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represent... by natch on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @07:34PM (#32919176)
In name it was a community project. Chris Lattner was an Apple employee and it was his job. After which he also started Swift…
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