Re: OpenDarwin shutting down

Am 28.07.2006 um 17:51 schrieb Rob Braun:

> Don't you think secret open source announcements are the problem?
> Aren't the two fundamentally at odds?  A secret open source  
> announcement
> would simply confirm that open source is a marketing tactic, not
> an attempt to engage and involve the community.

Exactly right.


I'm only stunning about how many people find Apple's "open source"  
tactics to be just fine. See comments to my posting on Apple's Darwin  
Development list.

"OpenDarwin gets closed?" - "Great to see those whiners going."

"Half of the packages aren't buildable?" - "That's normal."

"Apple fails to match the expectations one gets by reading it's  
announcements?" - "We don't want to talk about black helicopters  
buzzing around."

"You can't build a kernel?" - "What are you talking about, Amit Sighn  
disproved this in his book empirically." (Whatever empirics he meant  
in this private eMail)

"Apple only does what the GPL forces them to do?" - "The GPL is  
really outdated."


For me, the closure of OpenDarwin marks a good point to get back to  
practices I had back when MacOS 9 was the current OS: One Mac for the  
day to day work, another computer for development, computational and  
experimental stuff. The later one is not neccessarily a Mac.


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