Will MacIntel Kill Apple Open Source Efforts?

An anonymous reader writes in to say that "Rob Braun (OpenDarwin core developer claims Apple's open source efforts are now dead, because Apple is afraid of assisting OSx86 piracy. First, Apple withheld the source of cctools required to to build Darwin. Now it seems they are no longer releasing the source to OS X's xnu kernel. "

We need a "much ado about nothing" tag

[C. E. Sum]

Which would fit perfectly in this story.

A minor problem is blown out of all proprortion, and it's the end of open source on OSX-x86?

Re:This is surprising how?

[Zemplar]

[throws gas on the fire]

This is because Apple is moving from Darwin to Solaris 10 x86 as its GUI code base!





Okay, okay, not stop spreading nasty rumors and get back to work!

Re:This is surprising how?

[nova_ostrich]

Nah, I heard they made a deal with Microsoft, and we're going to see the innovation from Vista finally come to the Mac...

Explanation from the Article

[Orrin Bloquy]

"...unnamed executives at Apple admitted that the sourcecode to Xnu had to be pulled after threats from the Church of Scientology."

Re:This is surprising how?

[dropdead]

In truth they are moving to a SCO codebase.

Re:Does anything ever kill anything?

[blibbler]

Well, video killed the radio star.

Re:This is surprising how?

[drouse]

No, not the Solaris GUI ... that's too simple: They are moving to the UltraSparc CPU, with the HURD kernel, a Linux file system layout and user space and then the GUI is the new "iApple" which is basically WINE with some stuff thrown on top to make it look like the Mac OS X Quartz GUI.

The motherbord will have a Transmeta co-processor with software from Infinium Labs for the DRM ... anyway that's what I heard.

cnn:pirates raid cruiseliner, demand copy software

[GodWasAnAlien]

I saw this on CNN recently.

Pirates attacked a cruiseliner with machine guns today, killing several people, and demanding that passengers allow them to copy Windows(tm) and OSX(tm) from their laptops. It was tragic story, and should serve as reminder to the rest that DRM and copy protection are nessesary to fight against pirates.

Adding DRM is not about limiting competition and increasing profits. It's about saving lives.

Re:cnn:pirates raid cruiseliner, demand copy softw

[cooley]

Mod parent UP! I was there and it was awful.

I had signed up for one of those new geeko-tourism packages. We had spent the last several days attached to a port, so we were excited to be nearing the CVS surrounding the galapagos, where we hoped to catch a glimpse of Darwin, or maybe a GNU.

Unfortunately our ship was soon compromised by these pirates who swooped in via the Cat5 cable. Their Captain, known as Bluetooth, just seemed to float right across to our ship, through the air; it was scary.

Anyway, they must not have known we were a civilian ship, because they kept asking to see the Colonal. I noticed that one of them had a USB key for a hand. They also tore every page out of the ship's log before they left....

Re:cnn:pirates raid cruiseliner, demand copy softw

[yo_tuco]

"I was there and it was awful."

I'm glad to hear you made it out alive. But CNN report was missing a lot of detail. Did the ship's Kernel get GNUend down in the Raid 5 attack? Did the pirates steal anything else like a Perl, Ruby, token or Cache from the passengers?

And did anybody get the name of the pirate ship that must have just zipped out of iSight without a traceroute. The whole incident seems awful suspicious to me. These guys must have had a man-in-the-middle to hijack that ship so easily.

Re:But it's still just Linux with a better UI, rig

[ChunderDownunder]

No root user, but admin group in sudoers (easy to do on Linux, but not done by default by most distros)

Ubuntu.

[Sorry, I'm just perpetuating the problem on slashdot that every *nix discussion has at least one stray Ubuntu reference!]