This is a point that I have seen come up many, many times now (on/. and everywhere else, too). What Apple has as open-source is Darwin. Darwin is a UNIX variant. You can, I believe, just download Darwin whole without bothering to download the source. Darwin is not what they are going to be selling. What they are selling is Mac OS X. Mac OS X will run on Darwin. Without Mac OS X, you can't run Mac software on Darwin. You can still run your UNIX software, just no Mac stuff. And no one not (double negative?) on Apple's payroll is contributing to Mac OS X.
This is coming from a long-time Mac user and evangelist who has seen a confusing situation doing what it does best: confusing people. Anyhow, hope that clears it up.
This is ridiculous, trying to make CSS an analog to the lock on your house, and DeCSS breaking the lock. It might just be, if your house was owned, along with all the other houses in your neighbourhood, by a large company. Then, when you tried to break the lock so you could get in to your house (which you payed for), they would be perfectly capable of repossessing your house and its contents. I haven't, as far as I remember, posted before, but this is really too much. I really think they've gone too far. Look out! -- Rob
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/. and everywhere else, too).
This is a point that I have seen come up many, many times now (on
What Apple has as open-source is Darwin.
Darwin is a UNIX variant.
You can, I believe, just download Darwin whole without bothering to download the source.
Darwin is not what they are going to be selling.
What they are selling is Mac OS X. Mac OS X will run on Darwin. Without Mac OS X, you can't run Mac software on Darwin. You can still run your UNIX software, just no Mac stuff.
And no one not (double negative?) on Apple's payroll is contributing to Mac OS X.
This is coming from a long-time Mac user and evangelist who has seen a confusing situation doing what it does best: confusing people.
Anyhow, hope that clears it up.
-- Rob
This is ridiculous, trying to make CSS an analog to the lock on your house, and DeCSS breaking the lock. It might just be, if your house was owned, along with all the other houses in your neighbourhood, by a large company. Then, when you tried to break the lock so you could get in to your house (which you payed for), they would be perfectly capable of repossessing your house and its contents. I haven't, as far as I remember, posted before, but this is really too much. I really think they've gone too far. Look out! -- Rob