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Apple Plans To Release Rendezvous As Open Source
Snuffub writes "According to MacCentral, Apple announced during an interview today that they would be releasing Rendezvous, their implementation of the zeroconf standard, under an open source license. I can't see this as being anything but great news for everyone involved -- the community gets a mature implementation of an emerging technology, and Apple benefits as more devices are created to support Rendezvous. For everyone interested, you'll be able to download the source from Apple's site in a couple weeks." uglyhead69 adds: "The article is light on details and doesn't mention what license will be used, but it's probably safe to assume that it's the APSL."
Well, awhile back apple took what appeared to be some abandonware from the old mac Sprockets system, and released it as openplay, an open-source gaming library that would let you write cross-platform networking code for games.
Has that been beneficial? Has it been used by anyone, for anything noteworthy?
It looks from where i'm sitting like there's been so little interest in it that despite the long time it's been released, the linux port hasn't even been completed.
If OpenPlay's been ignored by the community, what makes Rendezvous so useful that we think the open-source community will pick it up and run with it?
I'm not trying to put apple's decision down here. They did an honorable thing, and i'm proud of them. But this is an honest question. Why would/should the linux/OSS community be interested in Rendezvous? Is it a technology that would actually be useful to the open source world?
what bait and switch did they pull with OSS
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
I know that I shouldn't succumb to temptation but. . . .
Oh, you must mean reliable ethernet on the motherboard?. No, you still don't have that.
Oh, I know, you must mean Firewire. Nope. Apple invented, SONY implemented, still flaky elsewhere.
Oh, then you must mean native support for multiple monitor systems? Hmm, guess not.
Oh, then you must mean uniform type usage standards. Oh, dear; I guess not.
Well, maybe you were referring to an OS-level implementation of Postscript? No, not that either.
Ooohhh! I get it! You were talking about uniform and reliable cut and paste across applications. No, not that either.
Wait! maybe you meant audio and later video-editing systems that are usable, inexpensive, and that creatives actually want to use. Hmph. Nope. Another one down.
Ah, now I remember, it's HTML and hypertext that you're talking about. Oh dear, HTML=Berners-Lee=NeXT, widespread hypertext=Hypercard. So not that either.
It must be that great out of the box security and resistance to cracking. Hrm; it certainly can't be that.
Maybe I just misunderstood the question.
Must be my mistake.
Data is the lever, rigor the fulcrum, brains the force that drives it all.
i wish apple would die. now they are actually trying to market to the 'smart people' rather than just people who buy their shit cause its pretty. die apple, die!
that is all. peace.