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OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hard-to-hit-a-moving-target dept.

niabok writes "According to a message sent by Rob Braun to the OpenDarwin mailing lists, the OpenDarwin project will be shutting down, saying that 'OpenDarwin has failed to achieve its goals in 4 years of operation, and moves further from achieving these goals as time goes on.' The project's servers will remain online long enough to allow developers to move their various projects elsewhere."

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  1. At least there'll be some profit by dada21 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With a PageRank of 8 and an age of 4 years, that domain will sell to some SEO company very VERY fast. I wonder what they'll get for it.

  2. Sorry, but... by megaditto · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Too bad their dreams did not work out, but frankly, they will not be missed.

    Sure, they ported fink and some libs to Darwin, but that's pretty much it. ODP has been dorman for years, since 2002, pretty much.

    Is Apple to blame for their luck of support? I do not think so; since they do have a neat thing going with http://developer.apple.com/opensource/

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    1. Re:Sorry, but... by jcr · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Too bad their dreams did not work out, but frankly, they will not be missed.

      They really missed the point. Darwin was never intended to be yet another open-source UNIX derivative like Linux or the BSDs. Its whole purpose was to make life a bit easier for people writing drivers for Mac OS X, so when they started beating their chests about how Apple was oppressing them, those of us in the Mac community bascially said: "Umm, who the fuck are you anyway, and why aren't you just using Mac OS X or Linux like a normal person would?"

      -jcr

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