Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 25th Feb 2006 07:36 UTC
"With the release of Mac OS X for x86 processors, Apple has chosen to not release source to key components of the OS, such as the kernel and all drivers. This means Darwin/x86 is dead in the water; Darwin/ppc has many closed source components and is a deprecated architecture." Read more here.
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2005-10-05
@aent, right on, I agree with you 100%.
The reason I'm upset (I can only speak for myself) is because Apple uses all this OSS software then touts it as a buzzword, when they really aren't giving that much back, and are cooperating only when necessary.
From the Mac zealot point of view, they think its awesome that Apple does give stuff back (which, in the case of GPL software, they have to). The BSD stuff I'm fine with them doing whatever they want with it, and not open sourcing it in return. That's anyone's right.
But, I'll believe that Apple is really open-source firendly when I finally see *native* support for Ogg audio codecs on QuickTime and the iPod.