From: Brian Parker (bunnyboy_at_sealiecomputing.com)
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 19:55:32 PST
On Monday, March 8, 2004, at 07:37 PM, Jared Bland wrote:
>
> On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:34 PM, Benjamin Rutledge wrote:
>
>> I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and guess that Apple is keeping
>> the
>> source for OSX and any future OS's under lock and key. Can anyone
>> verify?
>
> Yes. Unfortunately, Apple is dipping its cup into the "Open-Source
> River" and not pouring its own soup back in. Bad karma, Apple.
Which is of course completely false. The core of their OSX is called
Darwin and completely open source and cross platform. Many parts are
based off FreeBSD, which they have also contributed back to. Off the
top of my head I can think of other projects which include KHTML which
Safari is based on, GCC, X11, and ZeroConf aka Rendezvous. They have
their own open source license which is certified by FSF. I believe
they have also hired many of the top open source developers and let
them continue their work. The only real closed part is Aqua, and their
applications.
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