Star Open-Source Darwin? Not Yet
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Aug 2006 19:38 UTC, submitted by proclus
Mac OS X Apple is stonewalling open-source developers despite the company's recent release of much of the Mac OS X Tiger kernel source code, according to Proclus, administrator of the GNU-Darwin Distribution. "In order to have a free and open source system, two things are necessary. First, all the necessary source code must be obtainable by anyone, and second the system must obviously be bootable in order to use it," Proclus told MacNN. "Darwin OS is not bootable without the AppleACPIPlatform driver, which is closed source [and proprietary] at this time." On a related note, a slew of unannounced features have been posted to the web, found in the developer preview of Leopard.
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judgen
Member since:
2006-07-12

just so you know the BeOS had that in 1999 with ClipUP so now youre owned due to your ignorance =)

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Ronald Vos Member since:
2005-07-06

just so you know the BeOS had that in 1999 with ClipUP so now youre owned due to your ignorance =)

It *is* systemwide, but not implemented by the OS makers, so I'm only half-owned ;)

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kefkathecruel Member since:
2006-01-17

You mean r3nt3d?

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