Not optimistic here. While I'm glad the SPI guys are getting paid (that is, a full time job), Apple is pretty bad at open source and developer services both, and they explicitly call out developer identity as a future direction, which doesn't fill me with hope.
marcelox86 46 minutes ago [-]
I see the opposite, they have a lot of oss projects nowadays and most of their new, interesting stuff is getting open sourced too, a la Microsoft
jshier 43 minutes ago [-]
Simply being open doesn't make them good open source projects. Luckily the SPI shouldn't need to conform to Apple's release schedule, and should operate mostly independently, so the worst aspects of Apple's open source projects will be less of an issue.
y1n0 23 minutes ago [-]
No true Scotsman…
SoKamil 57 minutes ago [-]
This acquisition sounds like a sign that Apple wants to get better on that front.
jshier 42 minutes ago [-]
That's a pretty low bar, and doesn't necessarily mean "good".
This news makes it easy. I’m starting the engines on this…
In reference to when Apple created a project called Sherlock that was a direct copy of a popular Mac app Watson
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- https://swiftpackageindex.com