Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Aug 2006 08:51 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
"We all cheered when Apple began experimenting with community-driven, open source development for its flagship operating system. But if those experiments are now drawing to a close, should anyone really be surprised? In his columns earlier this year, InfoWorld's resident Mac aficionado Tom Yager noted how Apple seemed to be backpedaling away from open source. Seen through that lens, last week's news that the OpenDarwin Project would be closing its doors looks like just another sign of the times."
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2006-01-10
There will never, ever be the GNUtopia where all software everywhere is free and open source. Sorry!
All software? Probably not.
All software in the major categories that Apple makes software in? Yes.
Its not GNUtopia, its plain financial sense. Why as customers pay <company> for proprietry software when a useful free version already exists?
Conversely, from a shareholders point of view it will become irresponsible for a software company to duplicate software available and widely used under a Free license.