Apple does have some open source contributions. One example is CUPS, which was made by Apple and is now used by most modern Linux distros for managing printers. If you want more examples you’ll have to ask someone who actually likes Apple, I’m sure they can think of more.
CUPS was made in 1997, and was quickly used in Linux. Apple in 2002 started using CUPS, and in 2007 purchased CUPS.
It was originally made by Easy Software Products. As it was widely used in Linux before Apple started using it, I’m pretty sure it was always open source (their other major release was HTMLDOC which is also open source). Being open source before the purchase meant Apple had to keep it open source (but could guide where the official releases would aim).
There’s also Webkit, which a few foss browsers (ie gnome web, and whatever kde’s browser is called) use instead of Chromium or Gecko, and Swift, a c++ based language that I haven’t personally seen used much outside of iOS development.
Not everything Apple is bad but iMessage is an active annoyance and so is their walled garden approach. It’s a bit like looking at someone you hate and talking about how that one time they brought a pie to the pot luck at work.
Apple does have some open source contributions. One example is CUPS, which was made by Apple and is now used by most modern Linux distros for managing printers. If you want more examples you’ll have to ask someone who actually likes Apple, I’m sure they can think of more.
This is a common misconception.
CUPS was made in 1997, and was quickly used in Linux. Apple in 2002 started using CUPS, and in 2007 purchased CUPS.
It was originally made by Easy Software Products. As it was widely used in Linux before Apple started using it, I’m pretty sure it was always open source (their other major release was HTMLDOC which is also open source). Being open source before the purchase meant Apple had to keep it open source (but could guide where the official releases would aim).
https://openprinting.github.io/cups/#HISTORY
It is now developed by Apple, but that was after the first 10 years of it’s development. This is why on the CUPS site (https://www.cups.org/) on the bottom it says “Copyright © 2007-2022 Apple Inc.”.
This has now been forked (by the maker of CUPS) into OpenPrinting CUPS.
Thanks for the correction!
There’s also Webkit, which a few foss browsers (ie gnome web, and whatever kde’s browser is called) use instead of Chromium or Gecko, and Swift, a c++ based language that I haven’t personally seen used much outside of iOS development.
I don’t like Apple tho (:
While Apple have contributed to WebKit, they did not make it. It started as a fork of KHTML, a KDE project.
Not everything Apple is bad but iMessage is an active annoyance and so is their walled garden approach. It’s a bit like looking at someone you hate and talking about how that one time they brought a pie to the pot luck at work.