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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. Re:Darwin on PC by topham · · Score: 0, Troll


    No.

    The kernel does not really perform all that well and needs some serious retooling.

  2. So PowerPC is to remain closed? by nurb432 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its nice that they are opening things back up, but how about us that are still on the PPC platform and plan on staying there as long as they can?

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  3. Re:Alot of damage needs to be undone by killjoe · · Score: -1, Troll

    First of all I would like to thank you for pointing out that every linux user is a zealot. After all there can be no rational reason ever to use linux.

    As for quality I will take konq over finder any day, any week, any year. I will also take apt over anything apple has including the open source projects that attempt to make up for the fact that there is no package management in apple.

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  4. Macs shipping with RoR... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    twice the gay!

  5. APPLE ABUSES THE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    To say Apple is open source friendly just shows how diseased Apple fanbois really are. Just ask the developers of KHTML how well Apple treats the open source community. For every miniscule contribution Apple makes to the open source community , they take away a ton. Look at where OS X would be without open source software like Darwin, Apache and the various GNU tools. Meanwhile they push a proprietary platform with proprietary API (Cocoa is completely closed - worse than .NET). And there isn't even a Quicktime player for Linux. In fact Apple has released nothing open source that is usable on other platforms without first requiring modification. You can't be an open source advocate and an Apple fanboi at the same time. Pick a side - Slashdot editors that goes for you as well.