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Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community?
InfoWorldMike writes to tell us that InfoWorld's Tom Yager recently had the chance to sit down and chat with Apple about their closing the OS X Kernel. From the article: "The Mac platform is an overflowing basket of raw materials for innovators and creators of all stripes. It's what Steve Jobs would fantasize about if he still worked out of his garage, and you can bet that he'd be livid to find that the vendor locked some portion of his chosen platform behind a gate without a word of notice or explanation."
Apple will release the kernel code when Vista comes around. They are just so sick of Microsoft copying them they'll wait till vista is out and done...
I know, it may take some time...
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Donde Ser Geek No Duele
Donde Ser Geek No Duele
"I am not an MS fanboy, however if you are going to take a jab at MS, at least do it for a valid reason."
Whoa there cowboy, slow down... If you read the Slashdot rules and regs you will see that you are way offbase with your comment.
"But this one goes to 11!"
ascetically pleasing? or aesthetically pleasing?
ascetic: "A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion."
er, now that I see the "religious devotion" part, and seeing that we're talking about Apple, maybe you're right.
Seriously, that has to be a moderation - since there can't be any other reason i'm not seeing it already in the comments.
They're not releasing it so that you can't put it on a Dell. If you could combine the OSX kernel (with modifications to make it run on any old PC), with the x86 binaries for stuff like aqua and everything, why would anyone buy a mac?
Is it wrong? Is it unreasonable? maybe. But it's not like it's some big mystery.
Seriously, am I the only one here who gets this? If it were ANY other possible reason, they either wouldn't be releasing any open-source at all (userspace, etc) for anything other than what they have to (gcc), or they at least wouldn't be releasing the PPC kernel either.
We've secretly replaced Slashdot with new Folgers Crystals - let's see if it notices.
The fact that the Power PC version is still open and not the Intel makes me wonder if Apple is hoping to keep non-intel OSX freaks at bay a little while longer.
And by "at-bay" I mean several hundred feet below the Golden Gate Bridge...
...everything got more snappy!