Subject: Re: MacOS X 10.1
From: the WebDude (wd@thewebdude.org)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 19:16:08 MST
Wouldn't it be ironic if Apple ported X to x86 platform?
> From: "nathan r. hruby" <nhruby@arches.uga.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:33:03 -0500 (EST)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: MacOS X 10.1
>
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Michael Tucker wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I know it's "wrong" to feed trolls like Adam, but since the topic of
>> Free software came up... I had a chance to hear Richard Stallman speak
>> last week, so I am familiar with the idea of Free software (vs free beer
>> ;), but I was under the impression that Apple was moving towards a free
>> software model for OSX. Is this not the case? I don't really know anything
>> about it, but wasn't Darwin their Free pet? Or is it merely Open
>> Source? Anyone know for sure? Has anyone here worked on it at all?
>>
>
> Darwin is release under the APSL (Apple Public SOurce License) which is,
> inthe FSF's & RMS's eyes, a non-free license. See http://www.fsf.org for
> some info and debate about the APSL. That said, the APSL has made great
> strides of late to come to GPL and FSF compaince. This IMHO is a good
> thing, Apple is learning. They're also starting to employ people from the
> BSD community to work on Darwin Full time. Again, these are Good Things.
>
> So yes, you can grab the OSX underpinnings (called Darwin) and run them on
> ppc and or x86 hardware. What you don't get are the really neat
> OSX-isms.. the COM implementation, Aqua / Cardon / Cocoa, etc.. So you're
> getting a *nix-alike that few people use and no compaines support (and the
> support for OSx require carbon, cocoa, COM, etc.....)
>
> Is apple getting close to being an Free Software comapny? Yes, but they
> have a long road ahead. I think in the end though, it will prevail over
> more tradtional software devlopment models such as Microsoft's. Think
> about it this way. IBM, Compaq-HP, Apple and Dell are moving towards more
> "open-source" ways of doing things. Even Microsoft can't stop the
> combined forces of those compaines....
>
> -n
>
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> ......
> nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu
> computer support specialist
> department of drama and theatre
> http://www.drama.uga.edu/
> ......
>
>
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