Re: Intel source code release
Re: Intel source code release
- Subject: Re: Intel source code release
- From: Mike Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:19:14 -0800
On Feb 17, 2006, at 12:03 PM, email@hidden wrote:
From: "Peter O'Gorman" <email@hidden>
Subject: intel source code release
To: email@hidden, email@hidden
I assume that the idea is to limit the source code availability to
those who
are attempting to steal Mac OS X and use it on systems not built or
approved
by Apple. I can understand and applaud the goal, but not the methods.
By limiting published source code to that which is "infected" by
the GPL,
Apple is, in my honest opinion, scoring an own goal.
You might search for a simpler reason.
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:44:23 +0100
From: St?phane Sudre <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: intel source code release
To: email@hidden
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.
Nine months of really hard work by the folks at Apple, who rightly
decided
that it was more important to deliver a kick-ass x86 operating system
than
to spend forever trying to package the sources for third-party
consumption.
As to your comments about performance, it was, and it is, and I hope
that
when you get your hands on an Intel-powered Macintosh you're as happy
as the rest of us at how it turned out.
= Mike
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