Apple Announces New Open Source Efforts

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 7, 2006 @01:24PM 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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Re:Your signature by Millenniumman · 2006-08-07 15:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Your right to walk the streets unmolested by the police outweighs my right not to get blown up.

Really? Does that mean I can run down the street with a bomb, and throw it at you? Then walk away? Perhaps the rights must be balanced, but neither is absolutely above the other.

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.sig by Morosoph · 2006-08-07 19:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Your right to walk the streets unmolested by the police outweighs my right not to get blown up.
You might find this paper interesting: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/cato _on_the_ris.html

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