Re: GNU-Darwin: missing code in Darwin
Re: GNU-Darwin: missing code in Darwin
- Subject: Re: GNU-Darwin: missing code in Darwin
- From: Erik Paulson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 11:03:16 -0500
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 04:07:38PM +0100, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
> On 04/06/06, email@hidden <email@hidden> wrote:
> >On 3 Jun, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> >> Is there some reason you have to send so many copies of this thing?
> >> 'Sorry' doesn't cut it when it's deliberate.
> >
> >I thought that it was imperative and obvious that word should get out
> >to the Darwin community about this. Sorry that you don't agree.
>
> Personally, I'd have thought that anybody in the "Darwin community"
> (which is a fairly nonexistant body these days anyway) would have been
> aware of the fact that not all of the OS was open-source. If they
> weren't, they clearly haven't been paying attention for years.
>
Just to see if I can head this off at the pass, and maybe squash another
long and pointless thread:
Things that were previously open-sourced (most notably, the xnu kernel for
x86) are not currently available. All Apple has said on the matter is that
"Apple has not said anything as to when or if most current xnu code for x86
will be available."
Most notably, Apple has not said:
1. Why they have not said anything yet
2. When or even if they are going to say anything about the availablity
of the most recent xnu source
3. What they are going to say when and if they say something.
We all know these to be the facts. Some are more upset than others about it.
Many have speculated on all three points above, no one has anything
beyond speculation.
If you are upset about it, instead of sending non-sensical email to the list,
why don't you organize your own list at say 'apple-should-open-source-xnu.org',
tell us about it once, and then carry on a discussion over there. We
don't need to have a discussion here again about what Apple is doing, why
they are doing whatever it is that they are doing, and why Apple should or
shouldn't release the the latest xnu source and go back to the old way of
doing things and all of the wonderful things that were happening because
of the source availablity.
Now can we go back to arguing about launchd?
-Erik
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