site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com -M On May 17, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Ulrik Guenther wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM agentm@themactionfaction.com ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ 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 isn't the first time Apple has tried such a gimmick. Recall the kernel hack that was supposed to prevent iTunes from being debugged to determine how DRM-AAC tracks are played. At least that was open-source. My guess is that there are internal battles within Apple on how to handle the delicate "piracy" issues in relation to open source and open source software in general, so there is no coherent Apple viewpoint on the issue anyway. It is a very important issue where most companies just pick one of the extremes so it will be interesting to see how Apple grows with its decisions. We just have to wait to see what the man in the black turtleneck has to say [which is, of course, frustrating too]. Security by obscurity. Never thought that Apple would adapt this concept. Unfortunetely, now, this is for real. I really hope that there will be something done against this. Many people spent their time in bringing Darwin forward. Now Apple took it and went away. Great. Just dig a bit into the source trees at opendarwin.org or at developer.apple.com, you'll see a significant difference between x86 and ppc. It just plain sucks. Sorry for the hard words. ulrik This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com