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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. Or perhaps it's a mistake? by diamondsw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So they missed a chunk of headers. It's happened before, and been fixed. I see no reason at all for Apple to get out of open sourcing Darwin. They won't include the TPM related kext's, of course, but the rest should be fine.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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