From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4AB255FA.3040902@0x6a.com> References: <4AB255FA.3040902@0x6a.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:00:59 -0400 Message-ID: <22e9d6110909170900w25c3b174h8b4750842052e88b@mail.gmail.com> From: james toy To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] fun quote Topicbox-Message-UUID: 70cda0b6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 ==8<== > No, no, it is, what I mean is that I haven't heard similar sentiments > towards the open source released by Apple. Apple's 'open source' is > software that is developed in a closed source fashion, then released as > open source when the time is right, as opposed to Linux and related > software, which are developed, almost from the ground up, as open source. > This is the impression I get anyway. ==8<== Yes and no; a lot of xnu is derived from FreeBSD. There are certainly caveats and areas where this is not true; however, I believe that anyone can get their hands on the source code whilst in development with a premier apple developer account. In some ways I understand this method or source control and in others I do not. It seems geared to a more "professional" crowd because I highly doubt many people are willing to shell out _thousands_ of dollars to get their hands on source code ~6-12 months in advance. It seems more a company would be willing to have an ADC account to get the xnu source early because they need to provide updates to drivers etc etc etc.. james francis toy iv