GNU-Darwin Dropping Cocoa, PPC Support

Posted by michael on Thursday December 19, 2002 @01:48AM from the whoa dept.

Johnny Mnemonic writes "MacSlash is reporting that the Gnu-Darwin ports project has taken issue with some of Apple's current policies, to the extent of: 'GNU-Darwin will not support or distribute any software which links to proprietary libraries, and that includes Cocoa, Carbon, CoreAudio, etc. There will be no native package manager from GNU-Darwin (pkg_add suffices). Second, we will be moving our operations to x86, and we are putting the ppc collection into maintenance mode.' Astonished reaction on MacSlash, and recognition of the Fink alternative. Is this a worthy principled stand, or is it more like Kruschev banging his shoe in the UN? Will this help or hurt Apple's adoption of GPL technology?"

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Re:Utter Stupidity by HiQ · 2002-12-19 01:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Looks like evolution has taken a turn for the worse here!
Re:Utter Stupidity by spatrick_123 · 2002-12-19 02:29 · Score: 5, Funny

People can get mad at apple for being to restrictive

Boy, you'd think the "grammar nazi" would know which form of to/too/two should be used in this case. :-)
Re:Utter Stupidity by cygnus · 2002-12-19 04:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Although it's now owned by Red Hat, Cygnus embraced the GPL before Linux existed.
heh. thanks for sticking up for me!

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