Apple does a lot of things. They have a lot of servers. They have a lot of software engineers. It wouldn't surprise me to learn they're running FreeBSD somewhere. They also vendor a lot of BSD software in MacOS and friends. It wouldn't surprise me if this implementation of comm is included in MacOS.
This doesn't seem very interesting to me. I dislike the implication of the title, as if this somehow means something more.
From people I've known who've worked at Apple, it's an uphill battle to get approval to contribute to open source there. Somebody likely fought pretty hard to be able to do this
FreeBSD is compiled using Apple's open sourced Clang compiler.
> Apple developed Clang, a new compiler front end which supports C, Objective-C and C++. In July 2007, the project received the approval for becoming open-source.
I don't generally see front-page news about their huge contributions to the WebKit, LLVM or Swift projects (yes Swift is transitioning to being an Apple thing to its own separate project from what I understand). The only reason this contribution is news is that Apple doesn't typically contribute to FreeBSD, not that Apple doesn't typically contribute to open source.
Not that you're wrong, they're resting on a vast amount of free labour from the open source community. Though that's not exactly uncommon.
in order to know how FreeBSD and Apple's OSes are related.
I still wonder what they "get out of" patching FreeBSD -- maybe there's more FreeBSD in the Apple OSes than we know. (I do not think it's possible a dev by accident used his/her @apple.com address).
The guy has been on the gnome board for 16 years, and at apple for 4 years. My occam's razor says he used his apple account but probably it is not an official apple project. If his boss is okay with this it is going to be alright.
xyzzy_plugh|1 year ago
This doesn't seem very interesting to me. I dislike the implication of the title, as if this somehow means something more.
habitue|1 year ago
mdhb|1 year ago
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GeekyBear|1 year ago
> Apple developed Clang, a new compiler front end which supports C, Objective-C and C++. In July 2007, the project received the approval for becoming open-source.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang
mort96|1 year ago
Not that you're wrong, they're resting on a vast amount of free labour from the open source community. Though that's not exactly uncommon.
cies|1 year ago
in order to know how FreeBSD and Apple's OSes are related.
I still wonder what they "get out of" patching FreeBSD -- maybe there's more FreeBSD in the Apple OSes than we know. (I do not think it's possible a dev by accident used his/her @apple.com address).
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