
In the Fed-Talk mailing list, Ernest Prabhakar (Apple's product manager for Open Source & Open Standards)
denies that Apple is going to close the Darwin kernel for x86:
"Just to be clear, Tom Yager was speculating about why we have - so far - not released the source code of the kernel for Intel-based Macintoshes. We continue to release all the Darwin sources for our PowerPC systems, and so far have released all the non-kernel Darwin sources for Intel. Nothing has been announced, so he (and everyone else) certainly has the right to speculate. But please don't confuse 'speculation' with 'fact'."