Comments on: OpenDarwin not open anymore http://nidahas.com/2006/07/26/opendarwin-not-open-anymore/ Musings on design, web standards and free software from a Sri Lankan geek Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:24:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: drac http://nidahas.com/2006/07/26/opendarwin-not-open-anymore/#comment-2349 drac Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:45:23 +0000 http://nidahas.com/2006/07/26/opendarwin-not-open-anymore/#comment-2349 Correct me if I'm wrong but the Cult of the Mac was never the driving force behind the OpenDarwin initiative anyway. They already have Macs, an open clone would have meant little or nothing to them (except perhaps in terms of interoperability). The "problem" for some was that they wanted a more open system than Apple's Mac OS X. They wanted (I suppose) to build up enough community momentum to pressure Apple into providing more source level support. This is not unprecedented in terms of ancilliary tool support either. Apple already maintains their own source trees of KHTML, gcc and the Sun JDK and they occasionally contribute fixes. I personally never thought it was realistic for Apple to give away the source to their jewel in their software crown, though. Sharing source for a few tools like JDK or gcc is one thing - sharing source for their entire OS core is quite another. Correct me if I’m wrong but the Cult of the Mac was never the driving force behind the OpenDarwin initiative anyway. They already have Macs, an open clone would have meant little or nothing to them (except perhaps in terms of interoperability).

The “problem” for some was that they wanted a more open system than Apple’s Mac OS X. They wanted (I suppose) to build up enough community momentum to pressure Apple into providing more source level support. This is not unprecedented in terms of ancilliary tool support either. Apple already maintains their own source trees of KHTML, gcc and the Sun JDK and they occasionally contribute fixes.

I personally never thought it was realistic for Apple to give away the source to their jewel in their software crown, though. Sharing source for a few tools like JDK or gcc is one thing - sharing source for their entire OS core is quite another.

]]> By: Asela http://nidahas.com/2006/07/26/opendarwin-not-open-anymore/#comment-2466 Asela Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:25:15 +0000 http://nidahas.com/2006/07/26/opendarwin-not-open-anymore/#comment-2466 <blockquote> ...but they don’t look like a company who want to share information, let alone source code </blockquote> <a href="http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-dev/2006/Aug/msg00067.html" rel="nofollow">Times of change?</a> via: <a href="http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Opens_Up_Kernel_Mac_OS_Forge_iCal_Server_Bonjour_Launchd" rel="nofollow">Digg</a>

…but they don’t look like a company who want to share information, let alone source code

Times of change? via: Digg

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