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Re: we were opensource, once
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Re: we were opensource, once


  • Subject: Re: we were opensource, once
  • From: Michael L Torrie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:07:06 -0600

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 23:26 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
> There's nothing stopping the Darwin community to develop such things.
> But how would you build a strong community around a closed, deaf and
> mute cathedral?
>

Precisely.  You can't.  This is one of the reasons that we are switching
back to RHEL from OS X server for our file servers (now that AFS support
under plain linux is much improved).

I'm sure I'll be flamed for this opinion, but I've had 2 years of sad
experience that has soured me.

>
> For me, Darwin is read-only source and OpenDarwin is fine for
> building add-ons at the CLI level: XPostFacto, Darwine, ... you name
> it ...

Exactly.  And if that is what Apple intends, so be it.  But I think it
could be so much better.

Michael


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> Have fun,
> Markus
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> Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
> http://www.jump-ing.de/
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 >we were opensource, once (From: "Peter O'Gorman" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: we were opensource, once (From: Michael L Torrie <email@hidden>)
 >Re: we were opensource, once (From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>)

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