Re: OpenDarwin shutting down

Adrian Gschwend <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:20:50 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.opendarwin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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