Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 10th Aug 2006 19:38 UTC, submitted by proclus
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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2005-07-06
It probably would save a lot of people a lot of time. Since Apple releases Darwin as a playtoy and not as free technology, any serious development on that shaky base is a waste of time. Except for Apple ofcourse.