• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Initially open-sourced? No.

    FAANG jumped on the open source bandwagon once they realised they could not complete with the Linux dev ecosystem, and so hastily implemented drivers and other open source tech built on existing FOSS libraries and concepts.

    They’ve contributed a lot, but they built upon existing frameworks pioneered by linux/FSF