site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Greg Hurrell writes:
But it seems to me that Apple never intended to make their open source effort community-driven, and doing so would not necessarily be
Yes, exactly, and that's what is so irritating.
1. Public relations 2. Ethical reciprocity: give back something to those that gave to you (Apache, GCC, FreeBSD etc)
WRT to GCC, that is also a legal reciprocity.
3. To allow developers working at low levels to have insight into the workings of the OS, to make their products work better
FWIW: I actually fit in the 3rd catagory above. I'm a developer who does drivers for MacOSX. I don't, and probably never will, run MacOSX on my desktop. I use the source mainly as a reference, and a substitute for good documentation. Anyway, I'm just trying to point out how much more Darwin could be if Apple wasn't so paranoid. I'll crawl back into my hole now. Drew _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com