webkit is a fork from KDE, so "initiated" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
llvm also existed from before although apple supported the development.
I was curious if apple had actually started any FOSS project.
llvm also existed from before although apple supported the development.
I was curious if apple had actually started any FOSS project.
Also, Bonjour originated at Apple and it is cross-platform, although Avahi probably is more popular
CUPS is associated with Apple as well, but it seems that it also did not originate there
last thing i found https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/03/26/apples-dormant-cups/
Copyright: 2003-2017 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
I’m not 100% certain if they started with any bits of the previous aarch64 backend or not though.
1) khtml was a really minimal renderer in KDE before apple pumped tens of millions into turning it into the first really modern web2.0 browser, you really can not underestimate the amount of money jobs was willing to pump to make that thing what it became by the time the iphone launched.
2) llvm was essentially apple's bet on a grad student hire and him and his lab's academic project. I knew and worked with several of those former uiuc guys. llvm and clang as we know them today were heavily built at apple.
Also, you are totally (and purposefully probably) misquoting me. I said __clang__ and the __llvm arm64 backend__ were done by apple, and they were almost entirely from scratch from the start at Apple.