[OT]: Apple releases Kernel sources for Intel Macs and "Mac OS Forge"

[Aaron Vegh]

Not to be too pedantic, but this is the first time the _INTEL_ Darwin
kernel is being released; the PowerPC version has always been
available under an open source license. Because of the delay in
getting this version out (which Apple "regretted"), there was
speculation that they would be changing their practice of maintaining
the Darwin code into the Intel era. Now thanks to this release, and
the larger open source initiative that includes other projects, we
know that Apple is still very serious about open source. And that's
good news for everyone.

Cheers,
Aaron.

On 8/8/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:59:41PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> > Apple has released the Darwin Intel Kernel source code, and created a
> > new community site "Mac OS Forge"
> >
> > http://lists.apple.com/archives/Darwin-dev/2006/Aug/msg00067.html
> >
> > M$ is going to get eaten alive over the next few years if they don't
> > open up Windows.
>
> Shouldn't that be phrased as: "Apple re-releases darwin intel kernel
> source code".  After all it used to be free, and then suddenly it wasn't
> for a while, and now it is again.
>
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