Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th May 2006 15:00 UTC, submitted by jeanmarc
"Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system. Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code. Stripped of openness, it no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial OS."
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2005-07-02
@Moulinneuf - I agree that this article was written with a considerably "anti-opensource" bias. It is a shame really considering that speculation aside, the closing of the kernel also has to do with other factors like building proprietary drivers into future kernel builds etc.
@GENERAL RANT (MY 2 CENTS):
Well, as long as this page is available, with its respective links to the previous sources:
http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/
It will be possible to compile the "last" open version of the darwin kernel. The source is already out in the wild. It will probably cause for GNU/Darwin and OpenDarwin to fork away from OSX, but there will still be compatibilities. And ironically, those same hackers that this article refers to would probably be technically able to wrap the newest OSX around an older kernel. Where there is a will, there is a way.