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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."

11 of 470 comments (clear)

  1. Open source fails it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's unpossible!

  2. THANKS FOR THAT SHIT NUGGET OF INSIGHT FAGFAG21 by CmdrTaco+(troll) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shouldn't you be out peddling your new open source band, starting several neighborhood commitees, barbequeing your lunch, syncing your pda on a stolen wifi connection and saving the world or something?

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    I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
  3. Re:Apple has been pissing me off by babbling · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple are bastards. They'd be considered "worse than Microsoft" if only they were half as successful as Microsoft.

    Apple:
    - Proprietary software.
    - Pushing DRM onto unsuspecting mainstream customers.
    - Shitty hardware that has defects or frequent failures.

  4. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bruce,

    Please shut your fat fucking cum-encrusted pie hole.

    Thanks,

    "The Community"

  5. What a surprise... by evilviper · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gee... You mean lifting large chunks of code from other free operating systems to create a slow and very limited OS, and then imposing restrictive license terms on that free code, somehow doesn't automatically lead to an OSS project everyone wants to jump on???

    I'm SHOCKED! Shocked I say!

    Somehow I don't think the end of OpenDarwin is going to mean Apple will stop lifting code from the BSDs.

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  6. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Attention -- this is not Bruce Perens.

    The real Bruce Perens has a dot after his name, like this: "Bruce Perens."

    This is an impostor who gets some kind of sick joy out of impersonating him.

  7. Re:Sad but not unexpected by nicolas.b · · Score: -1, Troll

    Woah, improvements on the obsolete Objective C, like we need that.

  8. Re:Apple has been pissing me off by Slashcrap · · Score: -1, Troll

    And I hope more users get over the whole macho thing and give up using an OS where every trivial little task becomes some monumental quest where you have to prove yourself worthy by constructing scripts, .rc files and kernel configurations, and switch from BSD and Linux to MacOSX. But that's just my opinion.

    Yes, don't do it the hard way - you might learn something. Then you would be disqualified from ever owning a Mac. It's also completely un-American and will get you put on a number of watch lists.

    And forget about the sense of personal achievement you might get from doing something hard. Buying a product from Apple is a major achievement that instantly makes you better than 97% of the population.

  9. Re:.... Apple is NOT open-source, by any means. by Elektroschock · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple is "proprietary+" but Apple fans think that was a feature. Everything works well together and costs 30% more... Apple does not offer people's PCs. It offers high price hardware from a single (+x) source. Apple is known to make real interoperability a nightmare.

  10. Re:At least there'll be some profit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'll just thank apple for it. It's their fault and we didn't need another crappy wannabe Linux, we've already got BSD.

  11. Re:pkgsrc by Durandal64 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Don't like hearing that do ya? Maybe next time you can avoid calling people stupid when they didn't anticipate everything you could possibly do to fuck up the software they've written.
    Hey fuck-stick, it doesn't take some sort of special effort to support a case-sensitive volume. There are plenty of apps out there written on case-insensitive volumes that run just fine on case-sensitive ones. All it takes using the correct paths and being consistent. If you refer to the path "/This/is/a/path" with the string "/this/Is/A/Path", you're doing it wrong, period, regardless of what your target filesystem is. Know why? Because those two aren't the same fucking string. It's not a question of whether or not you're being an idiot (you are); it's a question of whether the system is going to punish you for it. This is not a difficult concept to grasp, and yes it is developer laziness.

    Saying, "Install it on a case-insensitive volume" is a stupid solution because it could involve reformatting your existing volume. They couldn't even give a decent workaround: creating a disk image with a case-insensitive file system.