> Apple has a precedent for open source technologies like this.
They also have a precedent for being less than friendly towards FOSS[0][1][2][3], despite the way they try to present themselves otherwise by listing their open source contributions prominently.
Note that the author of these comments, saurik, is Jay Freeman, the creator of Cydia. Key quotes include:
> Apple has simply never been in compliance with the LGPL [for WebCore].
> As for Oracle, I think Apple is much more harmful [to open source]
> I have gotten so used to Apple giving open source the finger, and thereby have backup plans involving disassembles for most of the things I care about at this point, I had forgotten to even follow up on them failing to release anything
And let's be honest Swift is great and all but it's hardly the crown jewels of the company they are giving away.