Kevin said "we do what we can", and I think it's pretty well known
that he's pretty much the only person doing the open source
packaging and distribution and support, and that's when he has the
time to do it.
That's not true. There are many engineers at Apple involved with open
source, in many different and less visible ways.
But Apple's a reasonably big company, and can certainly provide
commensurate resources to the open source area.
The problem with more people, and more immediate communication with
those people, is inconsistency of message. Everyone can see how
important a consistent image is to Apple. Because of that, many of
the engineers at Apple involved with open source choose to keep a
lower profile and prefer to interact with the community directly on
specific issues instead of making broad statements about Apple and
open source in general.
I think it's that (quite appropriate, IMHO) level of discretion that
led to the mystery of xnu. The more directly the community interacts
with Apple engineers, the more those same engineers are going to keep
quiet about things they don't have firsthand knowledge of.
So I think I speak for all of Apple when I say I don't speak for all of Apple.
;-)
-pmb
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