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AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

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1424 points moonleay | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.48s | source
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WD-42 ◴[16 Nov 25 02:09 UTC] No.45942152[source]▶
Cool project, not cool that it needs to exist. Apple isn’t only content to leech off OSS software, they have to force the existence of more of it to workaround what they closed off.
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blackqueeriroh ◴[16 Nov 25 02:21 UTC] No.45942216[source]▶
Uhhhh, Apple donates a ton of code to OSS
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WD-42 ◴[16 Nov 25 02:29 UTC] No.45942261[source]▶
When the license legally compels them to, and sometimes not even then.
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suprjami ◴[16 Nov 25 03:58 UTC] No.45942635[source]▶
Unsurprisingly, you cannot assign a single intent to 166k+ people.

Just like Microsoft there are parts of the company who are hostile to open source, and there parts of the company whose success is attributable to open source.

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bloppe ◴[16 Nov 25 06:46 UTC] No.45943265[source]▶
True, but you can compare them to, say, Google, which maintains thriving OSS projects like Chromium and AOSP and generally does a way better job at publishing code and research.
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1. ho_schi ◴[16 Nov 25 07:50 UTC] No.45943473[source]▶
I wouldn’t mention as positive example. I wouldn’t even mention them as example.

Apple cooperates within WebKit well with WebKitGtk. They supported LLVM when it is in their interest.

Chrome is used as proprietary web-engine to vendor lock-in the web. While often used by others, I’m not aware of a broad cooperation. Android is a shadow of Linux, merely using the Linux-Kernel, not GNU. Plus a lot of closed-source code (PlayServices, App Signatures, Google Cloud, Google Apps).

Googles open-source projects seem often exclusive Google only projects? Google works together with others! But especially Chrome and AOSP are…causing worries.

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2. bloppe ◴[16 Nov 25 16:16 UTC] No.45946169[source]▶
AOSP is the foundation of GrapheneOS, LineageOS and dozens of other patently non-Google systems. Chromium is the foundation for Edge, Brave, Opera, and every single AI browser being churned out by the dozen. Many of the Chromium forks are specifically designed to block Google ads.

There's a reason most of these projects picked AOSP over iOS, or even Chromium over WebKit. Google just engages with the community better than Apple. It's silly to pretend like they're on the same level.