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Apple Plans To Release Rendezvous As Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the so-it-won't-be-a-secret-rendezvous dept.

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."

7 of 338 comments (clear)

  1. Make Rendezvous Open Source! by Lieutenant_Dan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think Apple should allow the Open Source developer community access to the code bacause ...

    oh wait. they already have?

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  2. Re:Peripherals! by jasonditz · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh great, more reasons to want a Mac.

    Now if I could just find another job I'd be all set.

  3. Automatic Bolo server finder? by VikingBrad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Methinks this is just a technology to allow Bolo players to find games without any configuration changes being required.

    Bolo and WinBolo rock!

    Cheers
    VikingBrad

  4. Re:x86...barff by MoneyT · · Score: 5, Funny

    hand me-downs. You mean like:

    The Floppy Drive, no we had that first

    The home computer, no we had that first too

    The mouse, no we had that one first

    The GUI, no Xerox had that but didn't want it, we got it and made it good.

    Oh I know SCSI, no wait, that was another first for us.

    You must mean USB, well yeah Intel developed that first, but they just sat on it, Apple ran with it and wow, now look where it is.

    Oh you mean 64 bit processors for consumers, no wait that was us too.

    You must mean M$ programs, no wait we had those first too.

    Oh well

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  5. Re:I forsee a hiccup... by jonabbey · · Score: 3, Funny

    No worries, I don't see most Linux kernel hackers being really anxious to incorporate a bunch of Objective-C code into the kernel, do you? ;-)

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  6. Autoconfig DVD player? by killmenow · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is great and all, but will it let iDVD automatically detect my non-SuperDrive DVD burner?

  7. Re:x86...barff by plastik55 · · Score: 2, Funny

    dude, don't flame people who take your side in an argument.

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