Re: Leopard Sources?
Re: Leopard Sources?
- Subject: Re: Leopard Sources?
- From: Chuck Remes <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:04:07 -0500
On Oct 30, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
Quinn writes:
[snip]
Obviously it is possible to improve things in this space. For
example, we could have a group of engineers dedicated to keeping the
open source and the internal source in close sync. Doing this,
however, would require Apple to rebalance its priorities: to increase
our commitment to open source requires a corresponding decrease in
the cool features that we can ship to customers (and developers).
This makes no sense. The whole point of a software company going Open
Source is to leverage the synergy of the community and allow your paid
workforce to be more productive. Given many people's irrational love
of MacOSX, I expect you'd gain lots of cool new features, and the main
problem would be selecting the best ones. With the OpenSolaris
development model, Sun provides an excellent example of how a
traditionally closed source OS vendor has opened their development
process.
My recollection of the number of kernel patches discussed on the
lists (darwin-dev, darwin-kernel and darwin-drivers) and submitted
the last several years is... near zero. I agree there is a lot of
irrational love for OSX by a lot of folks, but few of them are kernel
hackers. Most of the folks who love OSX love it for the GUI and
userland apps.
The number of people really interested in the UNIX pieces of OSX
couldn't even keep *one* darwin "distro" alive. Where's the love?
Anyway, way off topic for the list. I just had to add to the
noise... :-)
cr
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