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The reason your claim is hyperbolic, revolves around consumer tech around choices that most people don't care about. They locked people out of porting your number from iMessage? Scary - wait until you find out what happens when Google locks you out of your Google account.

And #1 restrictive tech company? Did Oracle disappear while I slept?

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At least Oracle supports open source.

Apple does not.

FoundationDB would like a word.

That sure don't look like commits to open source projects managed by other people, bucko.

That's pretty much the only product they support, no? I am no fan of Oracle (probably nobody is), but they do support some very heavy projects, the obvious ones being OpenJDK, MySQL, and the Linux kernel (mostly btrfs IIRC).

https://lwn.net/Articles/867540/

Edit: I am not really talking about WebKit, Darwin, and the other projects they only developed for themselves.

They didn’t really “only develop WebKit for themselves”: all of the non-Firefox browsers now descend from WebKit one way or another.

But, you can also look at their GitHub repositories: Swift, llvm, cups are at least three open source packages they maintain.

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