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we love open source!!1! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 months ago by reimufumo@lemmy.ca to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No im not cheering about anything, my entire fucking point is Apple is not antithetical to open source.

It’s that goddamn simple, it your making some sort of fan boy anti Apple war out of this and it’s honestly pathetic.

[–] Corbin@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

As a hardware hacker, I've experienced Apple's anti-FLOSS behavior. I was there when Apple was trying to discourage iPodLinux. In contrast, when we wanted to upstream support for the Didj, LeapFrog gave us documentation and their kernel hackers joined our IRC channel. It's the same reason that people prefer ATI/AMD to nVidia, literally anybody to Broadcom, etc.

Your "entire fucking point" is obvious from the top-level comment you replied to; you've taken offense to somebody pointing out that writing FLOSS on Apple hardware is oxymoronic. And it's a bad point, given that such a FLOSS hacker is going to use Homebrew or Nix in order to get a decent userland that hasn't been nerfed repeatedly by an owner with a GPLv3 allergy and a fetish for controlling filesystem layouts. Darwin is a weird exception, not one of the easy-to-handle BSDs.

Also, what, are you not anti-Apple? Do you really think that a fashion company is going to reward you for being fake-angry on Lemmy?