Re: GNU-Darwin: missing code in Darwin
Re: GNU-Darwin: missing code in Darwin
- Subject: Re: GNU-Darwin: missing code in Darwin
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:05:15 -0400 (EDT)
On 4 Jun, Erik Paulson wrote:
> 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.
I would definitely disagree with this.
We are not asking for Apple to give away such things, but rather to
maintain Darwin as a free and open source OS, which it already is. The
source code for various revisions of Mac OS X Core have been open source
software continuing from OS X beta, and Darwin has since become a free
and open source operating system. We want it to stay that way. We
think that it should stay that way, and that more needs to be done by
Apple in the direction of free and open source software. Do you really
want a world where launchd becomes proprietary?
In fact Darwin is a free and open source operating system. If you use
Darwin-7.* it free and open, subtracting the binary drivers which are
largely not required. Darwin-6.6.1 is a workable free and open source
OS, or else GNU-Darwin would not distribute it. We have expunged the
proprietary drivers, and it works fine. Darwin-8.3 is only missing one
driver in order to be a free and open source OS.
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
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