is this even an issue of him committing to the repositories?
from reading that article i get the idea that nothing has changed on that, and his work as a darwin developer/committer can continue.
his issue was solely with the adc program, and the fact that apple requires even online members to agree to an nda; and the fact that you need to be an adc member to download the dev tools. this is where the age issue applies, this has nothing to do with darwin.
reading the article, he decided to give up on the darwin project because of his issues with adc.
that's what his article says.
what it doesn't say is who exactly made the decision to follow-through with the decision to revoke his adc privileges.
he mentions darwin a whole lot, but this is apparently an adc issue and not a darwin issue. for all we know the "darwin people" at ï£ might have gone to bat for him [and struck out] or simply not known, or had no say in the matter.
we don't know what happened in that regard.
imho his article portrays the darwin project unfairly.
and yes i agree with him that apple shouldn't require an nda to download the dev tools. apple shouldn't require an nda for online members because online members and student devs (for the most part) don't get any pre-release software.
but finlay is well respected on the darwin lists, and it seems people are trashing the darwin projects unnecessarily here.
i don't know if this counts, but i ran seti@home on a overclocked 400mhz g3 imac (333mhz normal) and it finished work units in 12 hours. i also ran it on a p3 450 and it took 18 hours and the p3 had more memory.
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They don't have any choice about accepting code, because effectively, he can't assign copyrights for his changes.
this has nothing to do with accepting code. according to the article he _can_ continue working on darwin.
it's just a hassle for him to get updates to project builder, interface builder et. al. apple's gui tools.
the cli tools are a part of darwin ofcourse.
It was really low that they didn't refund his ADC account.
in the article he states he wasn't old enough to get a student account. this leads me to believe he had a free online account.
if he had a select or premier account, he wouldn't have mentioned/cared about the student account.
it's shady that apple wouldn't offer a refund, but apparently he hasn't lost any money at all.
is this even an issue of him committing to the repositories?
from reading that article i get the idea that nothing has changed on that, and his work as a darwin developer/committer can continue.
his issue was solely with the adc program, and the fact that apple requires even online members to agree to an nda; and the fact that you need to be an adc member to download the dev tools. this is where the age issue applies, this has nothing to do with darwin.
reading the article, he decided to give up on the darwin project because of his issues with adc.
that's what his article says.
what it doesn't say is who exactly made the decision to follow-through with the decision to revoke his adc privileges.
he mentions darwin a whole lot, but this is apparently an adc issue and not a darwin issue. for all we know the "darwin people" at ï£ might have gone to bat for him [and struck out] or simply not known, or had no say in the matter.
we don't know what happened in that regard.
imho his article portrays the darwin project unfairly.
and yes i agree with him that apple shouldn't require an nda to download the dev tools.
apple shouldn't require an nda for online members because online members and student devs (for the most part) don't get any pre-release software.
but finlay is well respected on the darwin lists, and it seems people are trashing the darwin projects unnecessarily here.
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i don't know if this counts, but i ran seti@home on a overclocked 400mhz g3 imac (333mhz normal) and it finished work units in 12 hours. i also ran it on a p3 450 and it took 18 hours and the p3 had more memory.