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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. "

6 of 557 comments (clear)

  1. Re:But it's still just Linux with a better UI, rig by Rolan · · Score: 4, Informative

    BSD actually, not Linux.

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  2. Code Drama Queens by maggard · · Score: 4, Informative
    For all of those crowing "I told you so!" the files are all where they should be, still under an open license. There was apparently a hiccup which Apple fixed as soon as they found out about the oversight.

    You may now move on to other pumped-up / days-old non-dramas.

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  3. cctools is now released by dmoen · · Score: 5, Informative

    I RTFA, and I saw this in the email thread about cctools:

    >>>I was amazed to find that the gas sources had been split out of cctools, so they could be provided in accordance with the GPL, but no other part of cctools was made available. So I never did get an answer to my question.

    >>I see today a much more populated source tree for x86.
    >>Thank you to everyone responsible.

    >Indeed, I also would like to pass along my thanks, since I was one of the people to comment on this with my concern before.

    Doug Moen

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  4. Re:But it's still just Linux with a better UI, rig by WindBourne · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mach actually, with a BSD API and a mish mash of OSS tools.

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  5. Another WRONG Slashdot article by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 5, Informative

    See this comment. Apple made a quick mistake and fixed it, and the sources ARE available.

    Next.

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  6. Re:Apple wants to use closed-source Linux-NTFS dri by mdarksbane · · Score: 4, Informative

    Note that since that fiasco they have complied with almost every term requested by the Konqueror developers, setting up a cvs visible external to apple and working with the KDE developers to get them security clearance to see the apple proprietary stuff.

    Just because they were slow in doing it because they were busy getting a project to market doesn't make them evil, since they did make a significant turnaround in this space. if you're going to criticise them (rightly) for following the bare minimum initially, you can at least mention that they have improved significantly since then.