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Apple Announces New Open Source Efforts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-road-again dept.

Today Apple announced a few expanded open source efforts. First, beginning with Mac OS X 10.4.7, the Darwin/Mac OS X kernel, known as "xnu", is again available as buildable source for the Intel platform, including EFI utilities. Second, iCal Server, Bonjour, and launchd are moving to Apache 2.0 licensing. And finally, Mac OS Forge has been launched, as the successor to OpenDarwin as a conduit for hosting projects such as WebKit that were formerly hosted by the OpenDarwin project's servers, such as WebKit. Mac OS Forge is sponsored by Apple. DarwinPorts has already moved to its own servers. Update: 08/08 01:43 GMT by J : The official Apple announcement is now out. Other fun news: Leopard will ship with Ruby on Rails.

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  1. I Thought... by redragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought Apple was evil and torpedoing the OSS efforts on OS X, because they don't want their Intel work to see the day of light, cause someone would hack OS and get it to run on home-brew hardware. Oh, or were people just being bitchy?

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  2. What about WebKit? by cblack · · Score: 3, Funny

    But what about WebKit, or other projects like it, such as WebKit?

  3. Re:First post (from a mac) by NosTROLLdamus · · Score: 3, Funny

    A little slow... you must not be using an intel one.

  4. Re:Retraction? by Lord+Kano · · Score: 2, Funny

    Douche is the French word for "shower", if you want to insult someone it should be douche bag or douchebag.

    LK

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  5. Re:You prefer Miicrosoft? by Nataku564 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait ... VB a plus point for Microsoft? You know, you almost had me up until that one.

  6. Re:OS X by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 3, Funny

    "No, Apple own't Open source OSX, but they will eventually put it on shelves."

    Wait.. are you saying Apple won't Open Source OSX, or that they pwnd OSS?

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  7. Re:OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    then I'll tell you that Microsoft is just a photocopier company
      Actually that's fun to imagine, constant paper jams, the occasional entirely blue page... :D

  8. Re:OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Flamebait

  9. Re:Alot of damage needs to be undone by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'd mod you interesting if I still had my points from yesterday. I wonder if this will change with Vista?

    No, your mod points from yesterday are gone for good.

  10. Re:Both Windows and OS X are good for OS apps, but by Durandal64 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually I thought it was a gcc compiler flag at first.