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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by RyanZAG on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:05PM (#7526044)
Given that all of those are already open sourced, do you know how bad it would look to close source them now? Especially Webkit/KHTML - that would be a PR disaster. I don't keep track of what Apple does - have they open sourced anything within the last few years? If not, I think they fit right in with the other companies.
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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by bch on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:28PM (#7526310)
Grand Central Dispatch[0] is the latest (2009) I can think of...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch

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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by justincormack on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:32PM (#7526351)
"We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard" 2010. Oh yes, that never happened.
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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by Alphasite_ on Thursday April 03, 2014 @05:05PM (#7526666)
Their Clang Arm64 back end as well, among other things.
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Re:Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler by wsc981 on Friday April 04, 2014 @07:03AM (#7530482)
Apple also open-sourced their boot process software (launchd[0], which was fully developed in-house IIRC.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd

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