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Will MacIntel Kill Apple Open Source Efforts?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the somethign-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes in to say that "Rob Braun (OpenDarwin core developer claims Apple's open source efforts are now dead, because Apple is afraid of assisting OSx86 piracy. First, Apple withheld the source of cctools required to to build Darwin. Now it seems they are no longer releasing the source to OS X's xnu kernel. "

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  1. We need a "much ado about nothing" tag by C.+E.+Sum · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which would fit perfectly in this story.

    A minor problem is blown out of all proprortion, and it's the end of open source on OSX-x86?

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  2. Explanation from the Article by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...unnamed executives at Apple admitted that the sourcecode to Xnu had to be pulled after threats from the Church of Scientology."

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