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Mac OS X Kernel Source Now Closed
littleghoti writes "Macworld is reporting that "Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system."
Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code."
this sounds like the work of Microsoft!
I've never met anyone that *didn't* want to run OS X.
Seriously, I don't want to run OSX, never did. Cross my heart.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
Open source isn't competing anyway. People will use it, or they won't. It doesn't harm the movement.
Stallman just wants everyone to do things his way. That's his beef, and it makes him look increasingly hypocritical to talk about freedom while promulgating methods of subjugating all computer users to his way of doing things. That's why he only matters in his little circle of fanboys. Most of us aren't interested in his ideals. We just care about using a computer.
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Shareholders love losing millions of dollars in potential profits to pirating so they can say their just as open as Linux.
"But there is also a big loss of credibility: will I ever trust a kernel I and a large public doesn't have the source for, with no peer review at all? If you want to hide something devious (DRM, spyware, etc.), the kernel is the right place."
You are a fucked-up slash-drone if you think it's a loss of credibility to have a closed-source kernel. IBM, HP and MS really have suffered such huge losses. [rolls eyes]
So, the kernel isn't open source anymore. So, what? If a closed source kernel scares you that much, then it's your loss. Apple doesn't have to appeal to open source "fanboys" that refuse to have a single binary on their systems that hasn't gone through a custom compilation process.
To those guys, go back to your Gentoo boxes and shut up. We productive people that don't care where a binary comes from as long as it works and doesn't do anything malicious will go back to our work while you tweak your little compiler options and add little hacks and brag about how fast your system can go with your kernel modifications like a bunch of street racers.
If a system is good enough to use, use it. If not, and you can't change it, don't. For 99.999999% of the population, the stock kernel is enough; ironically, only 99% of the population is okay with that, so we have that 0.999999% that thinks they have to tweak everything when it really has no effect on their productivity.