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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by rahoulb on Friday January 11, 2013 @07:35AM (#5042386)
Back in those days, Apple was all about open-source - I still have an OSX 10.2 (Jaguar) box somewhere where the main headline is about Apple and open-source.

(Just found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenf/5393674266/)

I guess there's still a lot of open-source in OSX, but they don't need to shout about it now that they are no longer the underdogs.

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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by microtherion on Friday January 11, 2013 @02:09PM (#5044368)
While there might be less shouting about open source contributions nowadays, arguably the contributions themselves are much more useful.

Certainly WebKit has been widely adopted outside Apple, clang/llvm is slowly, but surely gaining converts, and libdispatch is IMHO deserving of wider interest, even though it may not be widely adopted on non-Apple platforms.

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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by eps on Friday January 11, 2013 @08:18AM (#5042522)
I think they were just trying to piggy-back on BSD reputation as stable and mature system, so they played the buddy-buddy card. Once OS X settled in its place, this was no longer needed, so the open source love faded.
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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by pretoriusB on Friday January 11, 2013 @11:02AM (#5043212)
It's not like the open source itself or the open source love thrived anywhere else in the Desktop anyway...
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