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		tjl on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler The Darwin Streaming Server for one. There's also the Apple Lossless Codec. Plus, they're heavily involved in work on LLVM and have been for quite some time. Lastly, There's Grand Central Dispatch (libdispatch). Plus, WebKit is quite far from it's KHTML roots.

scholia on April 4, 2014 [–]

Doesn't sound like much for the worlds's most valuable company with $150 billion (or whatever) in the bank.

As for the Apple Lossless Codec, it open-sourced a failure. It would have been much better for everyone if Apple had just supported FLAC.

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