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Mac OS X Kernel Source Now Closed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nice-while-it-lasted dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Great news! by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is no new news here.

    I'm afraid its news to huge numbers of fanbois on /. who have been defending darwin x86 as being open source since its release?

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  2. Re:useful purpose by toadlife · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "It sure irritates me to see BSD groups actually helping proprietary vendors compete against open source."

    It irritates me that people like you don't get the point of the BSD license.

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  3. Re:useful purpose by linguae · · Score: 0, Redundant
    It sure irritates me to see BSD groups actually helping proprietary vendors compete against open source. Thanks buddy. Stallman got at least one thing right.

    But you don't understand the point of BSD. BSD wants its software used. It doesn't matter to BSD users/developers if somebody uses their code and doesn't keep it open. BSD doesn't mind if Microsoft wants to use the code (and they do, just grep for "University of California" in ftp.exe in Windows). BSD is simply about creating good software and watching its work being used in some shape or form everywhere.