Re: OpenDarwin shutting down
Adrian Gschwend <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:20:50 +0200
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Rob Braun wrote: > The only thing waiting until WWDC to announce OD's closure would > have done is possibly steal some of Apple's thunder. While that may > be temporarily gratifying, it would accomplish nothing. We are > done, I am done. Closing OpenDarwin is not a publicity stunt or a > bargaining chip. It is an announcement of a sad fact, and an > admission that 6 years of my, and other's, involvement has been a > failure or worse, contributed to a marketing scheme. This is not > something to be defiantly proud of or gloat over. We're done, we'd > like to move on and to the best of our ability not screw over the > people that helped us. I can fully understand that, thanks for the comments Rob. Sad to hear that anyway... I hope that some parts will have a new life in new projects, like IOKit or L4/Darwin. The design of Darwin is too interesting to dump it, too bad Apple didn't realize that. cu Adrian