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Comment by rimantas | Hacker News Reader

  I hope we can all agree that Apple has never really been
  an open standards company

We cannot. I strongly disagree. At least in the web space there is a lot of innovation comming from or strongly supported by Apple.

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Not claiming they have never done anything for the community but they have far more closed projects than open ones.

It's complicate. I believe each and every of their closed project depends a lot on a number of open ones—just take a look at Settings->About->Legal on iPhone or take a look at http://www.apple.com/opensource/. On the other hand they do not contribute to all of OSS they use. But http://www.opensource.apple.com/ is still impressive.

... like Theora, and unlike H.264.

They are open just like Microsoft :-)

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