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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GCC is not the primary component of Darwin, most of their stuff didn't need to be released at all, though obviously what GPL'd software they used has had to be released under the same license, with most of the Darwin core they were free to release under their own license if they felt like releasing sources at all.
They could have licensed some proprietary rendering engine for money but they probably liked the idea of community contribution, something they could not expect with their sources a closely guarded secret. The other thing is that this way they can go on about their AppleTM WebKit rendering engine and all the advantages, Open Source included, it has over the competition, Opera and Omniweb spring to mind...