They don’t contribute engineers out of the kindness of their hearts. They do it for entirely selfish reasons — to have a large influence in industry standards, and the competitive advantages that enables.
Do you also believe Google created Chrome for “freedom”, instead of to gain a competitive advantage in web and ad tech standards?
I can’t tell if this is sarcastic because Apple contributed over 20% of the engineers credited with developing USB-C.
It’s sarcasm, because it took EU legislation to force them to actually fucking use it in their phones a decade later.
They don’t contribute engineers out of the kindness of their hearts. They do it for entirely selfish reasons — to have a large influence in industry standards, and the competitive advantages that enables.
Do you also believe Google created Chrome for “freedom”, instead of to gain a competitive advantage in web and ad tech standards?
Do you believe any for-profit entity give two shits about anything except for profit? Oh, that’s right, the one you like/work for is different.
In what universe was my comment promoting any for-profit? Are you mentally deficient?
Why do you think any “privatized” entity does anything? Altruism? Charity?