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Apple closes down OS X

By Tom Yager, InfoWorld

Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system.

Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code. Stripped of openness, it no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial OS.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?N...age=1&pagePos=8


Mac OS X Kernel Source Now Closed
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 17, @11:11AM
from the nice-while-it-lasted dept.
OS X
littleghoti writes "Macworld is reporting that "Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system." Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code."

http://apple.slashdot.org/

[krissel]

Good comments HERE.

[Xairbusdriver]

There's probably truth in both sides of the arguements on those sites. Most is way beyond me and I never considered OS X to really be non-proprietary, anyway. But there do seem to be a lot of sour grapes in certain places...

[MacHeadCase]

The new owners of ResExcellence are Bryan and Chris from Radical Breeze software.

I posted this topic in the ResEx forums a couple of days ago and Chris had this to say on the subject. It is interesting from the point of view of a developer. In his post he quotes two replies from Slashdot and it looks like this news is a bit like the resurfacing of the "new Mac OS X dangerous virus/malware/trojan/worm that deletes all your files that we have found for your reading pleasure - so basically Mac OS X is no longer safe to use" the PeeCee media keeps telling us about every month or so.

[krissel]

Follow-up.

Why Apple snubs its open source geeks

[sandbox]

Apple is trying to split hairs. Claiming to be open source and locking up the kernal is a nono under BSD rules I would suspect? Apple has claimed it to be a security threat,  others claim that people are using the code to run OSX in White Boxes.

I think Apple has burnt their closest allies. These were the folks that tested the software or found problems. I hear background noise of developers shifting tides to Open Source on ADM 64 bit chips as a path to a developers future. There seems to be a lot of upset folks out there.

[kelly]

Well we know of at least one. And he lives in Florida.  

The Revolution Will be Open Sourced!

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