Comment by RyanZAG
11 years ago
Given that all of those are already open sourced, do you know how bad it would look to close source them now? Especially Webkit/KHTML - that would be a PR disaster. I don't keep track of what Apple does - have they open sourced anything within the last few years? If not, I think they fit right in with the other companies.
Grand Central Dispatch[0] is the latest (2009) I can think of...
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
"We're going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we're going to make FaceTime an open industry standard" 2010. Oh yes, that never happened.
Their Clang Arm64 back end as well, among other things.
Apple also open-sourced their boot process software (launchd[0], which was fully developed in-house IIRC.
[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd