Open Source is and always has been a Communist canard. There is
yet to be a pure open source business model that is profitable.
The only successful open source projects are ones that use open
source as a *basis* for closed systems such as OS X does (there are
others).
Steve probably got tired of hackers creating security problems
for OS X. Sure the upside is many contributors but there are many
downsides such as giving created value away for free and opening one's
code to attack because malicious programmers can freely and analyze
the sources to look for ways to exploit weaknesses.
"The
capitalists of the world and their governments, in the pursuit of the
conquest of the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the indicated
higher reality, and thus will turn into deaf, mute, blind men. They
will extend credits in giving us the materials and technology we lack.
They will restore our military industry, indispensible for our future
victorious attacks on our suppliers. In other words, they will labor
for the preparation for their own suicide."
-- Vladimir
Lenin
-m
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At 9:29 PM +0200 7/26/06, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 26.07.2006 um 20:37 schrieb Dave
Schroeder:
Why is this disappointing?
This is another step towards Mac OS X becoming fully closed
source.
what exactly has OpenDarwin-proper done
in the last few years?
They made about all of the Darwin projects buildable for the public.
As you probably know, sources posted at Apple Darwin aren't always
free of glitches.
but what are we losing here, at
present?
A central point for working with Apple's open source.
And why should How Tos, etc., be
lost?
Because the server might disappear some day in a not too distant
future? Probably there will be at least some backups available
elsewhere, but this obviously isn't worked out yet.
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