On vendredi, février 17, 2006, at 04:32 PM, Graham J Lee wrote:
On 17 Feb 2006, at 14:38, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
Hi,
[...]
By limiting published source code to that which is "infected" by the
GPL, Apple is, in my honest opinion, scoring an own goal.
[...]
I agree, but then I think that a large slice of the people you just
sent your message to (especially on hackers@) are going to agree also.
I for one have filed an Enhancement Request with Apple asking for
greater access to the Darwin/intel sources and outlining what I use it
for, and why I won't be able to get all of my work done if I went to
an intel-only environment with the current source availability. IOW,
I explain why I'm not about to rush out and upgrade all of my PPC Macs
;-). I don't know how successful that will be, but source-code
availability of the core UNIX is a reason that I and some of my
colleagues have given to justify going with OS X; not having that
makes other BSDs, Linux and Slowlaris[!] more attractive than OS X for
some purposes.
What would be interesting to see in the Intel source version is the
explanation why one week before the announcement of Mac OS X for Intel
at WWDC, the x86 version of Darwin was said to be a dying 3-leg horse
from a performance point of view with no hope of recovery and now,
since the release of the Intel iMac Core Duo, it is (or stated to be) a
stalion.
This could help me for turf related stuff :)
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