ezine.daemonnews.org— With the release of Mac OS X for x86 processors, Apple has chosen to not release source to key components of the OS, such as the kernel and all drivers. This means Darwin/x86 is dead in the water.
Feb 25, 2006View in Crawl 4
If you read the darwin-dev mailing list, you will see this quote:>> I see today a much more populated source tree for x86.>> Thank you to everyone responsible.> Indeed, I also would like to pass along my thanks, since I was one of > the people to comment on this with my concern before.So, it _was_ an issue, but seems to have been dealt with.
The whole concept has everything to do with open source. And why is it a bad thing? You go and sink hundreds of thousands of dollars into a project based on an open source app, then lose support for it, and all of a sudden, you have a lame duck on your hands. If this alone is not a good reason to avoid using open source for any serious project, than I don't know what is.
@jackspackExactly the same thing can happen with basing a project on commercial software - eg. the company goes out of business and the software is lost or no longer developed, or the software is bought and dropped in a hostile takeover, or support is dropped as new replacement products come out. If anything basing things on open source is more future proof, as you're not completely stuck with technology based on something that can't easily be replicated.
mingistechFeb 25, 2006
old news and incorrect.sheesh.
lewstherinFeb 25, 2006
WTF?? This story is wrong, and yet people are still digging it!
hostileFeb 25, 2006
Everyone report this as innacurate
phragmentedFeb 25, 2006
If you read the darwin-dev mailing list, you will see this quote:>> I see today a much more populated source tree for x86.>> Thank you to everyone responsible.> Indeed, I also would like to pass along my thanks, since I was one of > the people to comment on this with my concern before.So, it _was_ an issue, but seems to have been dealt with.
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jackspackFeb 26, 2006
The whole concept has everything to do with open source. And why is it a bad thing? You go and sink hundreds of thousands of dollars into a project based on an open source app, then lose support for it, and all of a sudden, you have a lame duck on your hands. If this alone is not a good reason to avoid using open source for any serious project, than I don't know what is.
asmodeusFeb 26, 2006
@jackspackExactly the same thing can happen with basing a project on commercial software - eg. the company goes out of business and the software is lost or no longer developed, or the software is bought and dropped in a hostile takeover, or support is dropped as new replacement products come out. If anything basing things on open source is more future proof, as you're not completely stuck with technology based on something that can't easily be replicated.