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Apple Releases Rendezvous As Open Source

Posted by pudge on from the and-darwin-6.1-too dept.

clarencek writes "Apple has released Rendezvous as Open Source, as promised. Excerpt: Starting today, developers can download Rendezvous as open source under the Apple Public Source License. Rendezvous is part of a broader Open Source release today from Apple which includes the Darwin 6.0.1 operating system and additional Open Directory plug-ins. Together, these underscore Apple's commitment to making core protocols freely available as open standards and open source."

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  1. Re:APSL is no opensource by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    GPL - 6 pages of legalsleaze 25000+ words.
    BSD - 1/4 page less than 300 words.

    BSD code can be used in GPL
    GPL code can't be used in BSD

    Looks like BSD is MORE Open Source than your 'real open source' idea. Oh, and next time Bruce, post with your name.

  2. bad link... by NNland · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know what's up with the apple webservers, but they have a problem with;
    http://developer.apple.com/Darwin/
    as listed in the link above. Switching it to;
    http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
    works fine though.

  3. for what it's worth by Anonymous+Cowrad · · Score: 3, Informative

    this is also being discussed on macslash.

    the article can be found here

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  4. Re:yes it is nice shame its not compatable with GP by spankalee · · Score: 4, Informative

    APL is compatible with BSD, and they do give back the the *BSD projects, even though the BSD license doesn require it, as well as release Darwin as open source.

  5. Rendezvous, SLP, and UPnP by maggard · · Score: 5, Informative
    OK - complete karmawhore here (like I need it) but before there are a hundred what is it? posts here are links to the answers:

    Here's an overview of earlier Apple implementation called SLP (RFC 2608) also used by Novell:

    Finally, for completeness here is UPnP:

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  6. Re:APSL takes away rights (minor nitpick) by Zenki · · Score: 2, Informative


    You don't see the OSS/FS community bitching because Apple ripped off the dock, which is used in so many of our Window Managers, do you? No.

    The dock was invented by NeXT, whose codebase is now the property of Apple. A more appropriate question is "Why isn't Apple suing people for ripping off their dock?"

  7. Re:Darwin 6.0.1 not the latest by Draoi · · Score: 4, Informative
    The 6.1 MacOS X kernel update only came out a few days ago by Software Update. Boxed Jaguar is still only 6.0.1, as is the latest Darwin release. The above references are confusing as they refer to both 6.0.1 and 6.1

    One Apple developer on the darwin-developer mailing list hinted strongly that 6.1 Darwin would be out shortly.

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  8. That's not news. by Arker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Darwin's been on x86 from the beginning. It's the higher level GUI systems that are PPC only.

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    1. Re:That's not news. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      ...correction. It's their higher level GUI systems that are RELEASED for PPC only.

  9. Re:APSL takes away rights by akac · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem here is that X11, Windows, OS 9, and all the other window managers work in a very similar way - just look different. Quartz/Aqua looks AND works differently from the other window managers. Its PDF based with automatic double buffering and far more sophisticated compositing that is just plain not possible on other systems without major hacks.