Re: Re: Xcode 2.3 source gone
Re: Re: Xcode 2.3 source gone
- Subject: Re: Re: Xcode 2.3 source gone
- From: "Shawn Erickson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:40:09 -0700
On 8/18/06, Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden> wrote:
What possible details in the XNU source are specific to the mac pro
and are something that an untrained monkey could not have deduced
from Apple's partnership with Intel?
Those untrained monkeys happened to be guessing all over the map on
what would be in the Mac Pro and the XNU source could have narrowed
down what was coming in much more detail (with a minor level of
analysis).
Apple depends heavily on marketing on their terms to garner high
levels of anticipation and even mystery, as a result they keep things
close to the their chest. Anyway Apple defines what it wants to keep
secret and when... it is their right to do so... you may not like it
but that doesn't change their right to do it (so who cares what you or
anyone else thinks folks could have figured out without XNU).
Additionally the delay in releasing XNU was only partially related to
keeping specifics about the Mac Pro in house (that aspect really only
applies to 10.4.7). The other factors involved likely include
repackaging/compartmentalizing of various drivers and modules that
contained code that Apple doesn't have the right to or want to release
as open source (this obviously has happened and Apple even made
statements to the fact). Related to that Apple legal likely had to
review what was being release to ensure that they didn't break any
internal and external agreements (legal... god does it take time).
-Shawn
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