Apple I think relies heavily on the BSD project (I think they might be even using the same kernel?) and Google on Linux. There’s also probably a lot of open-source software they use behind the scenes or which aren’t as big.
In Linus’ defense, I would probably pay the person that wrote and maintains the software that literally runs the world pretty well too. Can’t afford not to.
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I agree with this take, but Google does stand pretty tall on Open Source. Android is technically the most widely used Linux variant in use.
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And I wouldn’t be surprised if ChromeOS is second.
Apple I think relies heavily on the BSD project (I think they might be even using the same kernel?) and Google on Linux. There’s also probably a lot of open-source software they use behind the scenes or which aren’t as big.
They use their own kernel but a lot of the userland is FreeBSD-based (and some senior FreeBSD contributers are also Apple employees)
In Linus’ defense, I would probably pay the person that wrote and maintains the software that literally runs the world pretty well too. Can’t afford not to.