Re: Like Apple has ever given it away

Dr. Ernest N. Prabhakar (ernest@drernie.scruz.net)
Fri, 7 Aug 98 07:41:44 -0700


Not sure whether you're being sarcastic (okay, I have my suspicions), =
but Apple *has* given away their Mach kernel before, in the person of =
MkLinux.

You wrote:
> <http://macweek.zdnet.com/1230/nw_rhaptel.html
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> Developers: Make Mac code public
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> By Wendy J. Mattson (wendy_mattson@macweek.com)
> and John Batteiger (john_batteiger@macweek.com)
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> A group of developers has pitched a radical proposal to Apple: make
> portions of the
> source code for the upcoming Mac OS X freely available.
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> The principal author of the proposal, developer Don Yacktman, said =
Apple
> could reduce its engineering costs and keep developers from leaving =
the
> Mac platform for
> the free Linux OS by giving developers ready access to the source =
code
> of both the
> PowerPC and Intel versions of the Mach kernel and Driver Kit portions =
of
> Mac OS
> X -- some of the core ingredients of Apple's next-generation =
operating
> system.
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> I know that, you know that, it's Apple that doesn't know that.
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> <> tbyars@earthlink.net <>
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