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GNU-Darwin Dropping Cocoa, PPC Support

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Re:Seems to me... by stevenbee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    D'oh !

    : )

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  2. Re:Someone has to say it by PoiBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    +5 Insightful. Too bad I'm out of mod points today.

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  3. The vote is for WAR WAR WAR by NDPTAL85 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We need to invade Iraq for several reasons.

    1. To enact regime change. Saddam is out, whoever we want is in.
    2. To secure our access to oil. We don't actually want to seize the oil, just make sure its always available.
    3. To practice and perfect our urban warfare techniques. Since we've never fought a large war in an urban setting, we need to fight this one in order to gain the necessary experience.

    And yes for all intents and purposes the project is useless in comparison to the already established Linux and BSD operating systems. Hell even HURD's more useful now.

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    1. Re:The vote is for WAR WAR WAR by Lars+T. · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      4. Nuking Iraq will lead to a Nuclear Winter, which will stop the so called "Global Warming".

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  4. Re:Useless Trumped Up Developer Puffery by reallocate · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've no problem with the principles of software developers who adhere to free/open source beliefs. But there is no necessary connection between adherence to that ideology and original ideas for desktop consumer software.

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