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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] amminadabz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 (:

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

While Apple have contributed to WebKit, they did not make it. It started as a fork of KHTML, a KDE project.

[–] Tak@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.