Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Nov 2005 12:16 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Sources indicate that OSx86 10.4.3 - which contains increased hardware restrictions - has now been cracked in the same fashion as 10.4.1. It was initially thought that these restrictions would slow the progress of hackers, but it appears that it has done little to deter those tackling the challenge. It appears that "Maxxuss" has outdone Apple yet again.
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2005-07-06
"Taking without giving is not embracing."
Apple gave WebCore (and got lambasted because they didn't put in enough comments in the large patch)
Apple gave ObjectiveC++ to GCC (it still isn't in the main trunk because the GCC team has issues with it)
Apple gave Darwin to the community (and sees few people outside the company working on it)
Apple has engineers and patches submitted to almost every major OSS package they use and ship, and yet there are people that feel that it isn't enough, and yet it's perfectly alright for IBM, who ships an equally large number of OSS apps in AIX. The differenct? End users don't want AIX, but they do want OS X.
To say they don't give back is a gross exageration of the situation. To say that what they have given has not been embraced by the OSS community would be more accurate.