Why Apple snubs its open source geeks
What obscure sort of person wants the freedom to compile the OS X kernel? I
know this guy named Steve
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| I'm not so much concerned about the single issue of Apple's sandbagging
| its open source commitment for six months (and counting). The kernel
| will open up again, this tempest will fade away, and I'll be glad for it.
| What will continue to concern me so deeply is that Apple thought it would
| be OK, that nobody would notice or care, if it back-burnered its
| commitment to keep its open source Darwin OS in lockstep and binary
| compatibility with OS X. I noticed. My story got such wide attention
| because lots of people -- whose numbers well exceed that fraction of a
| fraction who would tinker with or compile an OS kernel -- understand
| why breaking a promise, and saying nothing about it, matters. It's not
| about code. It's about character.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/14/79151_25OPcurve_1.html
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