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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. 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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  2. 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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