Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Aug 2006 12:19 UTC, submitted by Techie
"The open source revolution has shaken the slowly crumbling foundations of closed source software, and while it hasn't taken over completely just yet, the tide is beginning to turn in its favor. Your normal everyday user may not really understand or appreciate what open source means, but that doesn't mean that they're not experiencing the effects of it."
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2006-08-18
On the other hand, releasing the iCal server, lauchd ... was/is a very good move toward open-source and those are promising first steps IMO. I agreed with the author on this point.
This clashes with your previous statement. All those released packages are depending on CoreServices and other things Apple is keeping as closed source.
when I read of the iCal server open source, I was like, WOW, sounds like Apple is really down to trying to see an open-source challenge to the whole MS-Exchange ecosystem... It seems like a great OS project, in that, it's totally compatible/extending the functionality of other projects (Mozilla, etc).
as for their OS, yeah, I mean, even before their 'gap' with the x86 code, i don't think anybody really took Darwin seriously... it's just not that useful for anyone besides Apple... although anybody CAN take any PART of it that seems useful/innovative... it's just that it's so focused on Apple's own needs, that nobody even WANTS to use it...
as for iTunes, I'm definetley not recommending anybody buy any stuff from iTunes store, but, that's really not about the SOFTWARE they're making, but a separate MUSIC CONTENT RETAIL business of theirs. Looking at the rest of their actual software media architecture, particularly formats, I think AAC/Mp4, and Quicktime both being standard, open formats is great!
btw, I believe their Motion video FX/Comp software is still available for Linux & OSX (they bought the project that way, but at least they haven't killed the Linux version as, for example they did with the Windows Logic)
all in all, it seems Apple IS contributing to an improved opensource scene... maybe you can say they are not an all-out "CHAMPION", or they are not an "Open Source Company", but definetely thru things like OS-services components and open formats they are contributing to a greater viability and even professional "smoothness" of the art (see Bonjour, launchd, their work with LLVM and OpenGL now)