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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
MacOS not really opensource
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1890822" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Correct. Many companies will create software for their own use and eventually release it as open-source while continuing to use it as well.</p><p></p><p>A lot of times that's done to encourage community development which makes things go faster than if the company was using internal resources only.</p><p></p><p>For example, Swift was a language that Apple created and was proprietary for a little while until Apple determined that there was a good amount of adoption of it from the community of developers. If Apple continued to develop it, it would do it, potentially, at a slower pace with what fits its business needs.</p><p></p><p>However, Apple <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2015/12/03Apple-Releases-Swift-as-Open-Source/" target="_blank">released Swift as open-source</a> was specifically to push it in the direction that made sense to the community.</p><p></p><p>This pattern has repeated across many companies. Google with Android and Angular. Facebook with ReactJS, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1890822, member: 110816"] Correct. Many companies will create software for their own use and eventually release it as open-source while continuing to use it as well. A lot of times that's done to encourage community development which makes things go faster than if the company was using internal resources only. For example, Swift was a language that Apple created and was proprietary for a little while until Apple determined that there was a good amount of adoption of it from the community of developers. If Apple continued to develop it, it would do it, potentially, at a slower pace with what fits its business needs. However, Apple [URL='https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2015/12/03Apple-Releases-Swift-as-Open-Source/']released Swift as open-source[/URL] was specifically to push it in the direction that made sense to the community. This pattern has repeated across many companies. Google with Android and Angular. Facebook with ReactJS, etc. [/QUOTE]
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