site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Terry Lambert writes:
...there's also those of us who are on this list, and try to help out by voluntarily answering developer questions, but who have day jobs working on code, and no ability to officially speak for Apple, including but not limited to, commitments to work on documentation instead of code, or ability to make forward looking statements. We also can't disclose Apple confidential WWDC or "developer kitchen" slides, talks, or reference materials.
This a symptom of the broader problem of Apple's secretive, control-freak nature and the unfortunate resulting disconnect of Apple software engineers from the developer community. This is what makes Darwin being "open source" a joke compared to something like Sun's OpenSolaris. In contrast to you guys not being able to make forward looking statements, Sun employees working on Solaris are pretty much required to push new code publically through OpenSolaris, and discuss technical changes on OpenSolaris mailing lists, in public, before they happen. Drew _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com