Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?
by carussell on Thursday June 18, 2015 @09:38AM
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Someone has gone through and downvoted multiple comments that mention Apple's purchase of the rights to the CUPS code. I don't get it.
To whomever is taking issue with this, could you, uh, you know... say why?
CUPS was bought by Apple. It was originally GPL software and was incorporated into OS X a few years before Apple bought it.
> Mach, OpenSSH, OpenSSL & Apache are not copyleft.
Fair point, I did actually mean open source in the more general sense than the copyleft subset of open licences.
> The success of Apple has nothing to do with the copyleft software they use....Now if you say "open source has been an integral part on the success of Apple", I would agree with that.
I sense you're nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking :) In any case, I think we agree the same point.
edit: why is this comment getting downvoted so much yet not one single correction posted? Please guys, don't just downvote because you dislike the tangent I started in my previous post. Take this comment in isolation and if you still disagree with me then explain why.