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AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

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1424 points moonleay | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | 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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1. gf000 ◴[16 Nov 25 08:29 UTC] No.45943596[source]▶
You can absolutely assign intent to a company, it's not an arbitrary grouping of 166k people.