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3/23 What do people here think of the Apple Darwin project
(http://www.publicsource.apple.com I know RMS is bitching
about it, but it seems to me that it's just sour grapes.
\_ what else would you expect from RMS?
\_ Bwah-hahahaaa.. They STILL can't pull off OS-X by themselves,
so they've decided, "Hey, if we make it 'opensource', it will
magically happen, and we won't even have to pay the coders!"
\_ I'm involved in a discussion on Apple's publicsource list. There
are a number of difficulties with the license, which I hope Apple
will resolve soon. See
http://perens.com/APSL.html
http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/apsl.html
Search for "Apple" on http://slashdot.org to find several articles with
discussions about the license (and other issues). -- schoen |
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| www.publicsource.apple.com -> developer.apple.com/darwin/ Save $300 Darwin Powered by Darwin Apple's open source projects allow developers to customize and enhance key Apple software. Through the open source model, Apple engineers and the open source community collaborate to create better, faster and more reliable products for our users. Beneath the appealing, easy-to-use interface of Mac OS X is a rock-solid foundation that is engineered for stability, reliability, and performance. This foundation is a core operating system commonly known as Darwin. News and Updates 57 WWDC 2004 Conference Session Descriptions Now Available Sessions in the 58 OS Foundations track will cover Darwin, advanced networking features integrated into the core OS, system-level security, and topics such as file systems, I/O Kit, and Apple's highly-optimized X11 implementation. Mar 29 2004 59 Ninth Annual Apple Design Awards Apple is accepting submissions for the Ninth Annual Apple Design Awards, which recognize excellence in Application Software, QuickTime Content, and new for 2004 -- Performance Demos. Mar 29 2004 60 ADC Reference Library The new ADC Reference Library is a key developer support tool. It integrates the core ADC technical resources -- Documentation, Technical Notes, Sample Code, Release Notes, and Technical Q&As -- and adds a highly functional interface that supports filtering, sorting, and browsing. Mar 17 2004 62 Getting Started with Darwin This new document provides a guided introduction and learning path for developers new to Darwin. HeaderDoc 8 adds many new features, including a new (optional) tagless syntax, code coloring, template-based index pages, improved error checking, man page output, and support for many new languages, including Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP shell scripts, and Pascal. HeaderDoc 8 also adds support for the Man Page Generation Language (MPGL), an XML dialect you can use to easily author well-formatted man pages. In addition to generating man pages from HeaderDoc content, HeaderDoc 8 also includes tools for converting MPGL files into man pages using the BSD mdoc macros. Also, the 73 CVS repository has been updated for gcc, gdb, cups, efax, gimp-print, tcl, Rendezvous, StreamingServer, and HeaderDoc. This document is intended for developers, researchers, system administrators, and others interested in the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X. We are grateful to Richard Stallman for his many helpful comments in this process. Mac account may be used to view and download APSL-licensed Darwin source code. Getting Started Before you start working with open source projects, please read and familiarize yourself with the 85 licensing terms that apply to that project. For access to Apple-developed open source projects, you will need to register as a member of the Apple open source community by accepting the 86 Apple Public Source License and choosing a user name and password. Non-Apple third party open source projects can be accessed without such registration. Includes discussion of Mach, I/O Kit, File System, Networking, BSD and others. Also includes information on developing kernel extensions. Gray line 91 Chinese 92 French 93 Translation Information 94 German 95 Japanese Get information on 96 Apple products. Visit the Apple Store 97 online or at 98 retail locations. |
| www.loyalty.org/~schoen/apsl.html My old comments on the Apple Public Source License were lost from this location in a server crash. If you'd like to see them, please e-mail mail and I'll see if I can dig up a copy. |
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