• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    From that company you love to hate:

    Apple Releases Open Source AI Models That Run On-Device

    Believe it or not, Apple has been, historically, one of the largest and consistent contributors to a number of open source projects for decades. Yes, Apple does a lot of… problematic stuff and deserves a lot of the criticism it receives, but, to their credit, they do support the FOSS community in many ways, and always have, especially by open-sourcing many of their own technologies, albeit often quietly.

    There’s WebKit, HTML, OpenGL (to which they were to primary contributors for almost a decade in the mid 00s-10s). They also are pretty much the only ones who decide new emojis and always have been since the other 5 or 6 UNICODE emoji board members don’t care to contribute.

    Edit:

    a list of current FOSS projects at Apple

    Apple at GitHub:

    https://github.com/apple

    More repos of older projects:

    https://www.macosforge.org/

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      I had a quick peek into Swift and FoundationDB and both doesn’t have CLA or DCO, interesting move by Apple who usually makes anti-consumer decisions.