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Apple Announces New Open Source Efforts 323

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 07, 2006 @09:24PM from the on-the-road-again dept.

Today Apple announced a few expanded open source efforts. First, beginning with Mac OS X 10.4.7, the Darwin/Mac OS X kernel, known as "xnu", is again available as buildable source for the Intel platform, including EFI utilities. Second, iCal Server, Bonjour, and launchd are moving to Apache 2.0 licensing. And finally, Mac OS Forge has been launched, as the successor to OpenDarwin as a conduit for hosting projects such as WebKit that were formerly hosted by the OpenDarwin project's servers, such as WebKit. Mac OS Forge is sponsored by Apple. DarwinPorts has already moved to its own servers. Update: 08/08 01:43 GMT by J : The official Apple announcement is now out. Other fun news: Leopard will ship with Ruby on Rails.

Comment Re:Security through obscurity (Score 1) 217

by arunkd13 on Monday December 26, 2005 @06:42AM (#14339061) Attached to: India Forms Expert Group on Google Earth Images

In a way, all of this talking about Google Earth is going to do more to get Google Earth known by the terrorist and military operators who could get an advantage from them.

As if terrorists don't already know the existence of Google Earth! What you are suggesting seems to the oft quoted security-thru-obscurity thingie.

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