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Apple Software Becomes Open Source

Posted by Matt Preston at 9:55 AM

It's interesting to see that a tech firm as powerful as Apple, who is notorious for closed software programs like OSX, has joined the open source movement. Apple recently made their software for compressing music files open source.

Article: Apple Lossless Audio Codec Project Becomes Open Source

What is Apple's goal? Why did they make this program open source?

   

Labels: Apple, Open-source

2 comments:

1. Tara S. said... November 16, 2011 at 10:42 PM

   Interesting. Perhaps they are struggling with this task and rely on crowd-sourcing and the innovation that comes along with it, or they are taking an initiative that furthers their position in the market as the anti-PC anti-Microsoft company (since those companies appear to be anti open source).  

2. WisconsInnovation said... November 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM

   It seems that Apple is learning from Microsoft's struggles in terms of trying to battle against Open Source software. Sometimes it is easier to join them than trying to beat them.  

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