On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 19:29 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 14:36, Craig White wrote: > > > > > > Does OS X qualify as 'ix in this respect or have they they > > > made it usable for professional work? > > ---- > > if it doesn't work on OS X, there are going to be a lot of surprised Pro > > Tools/Logic Pro/etc. users but Apple doesn't necessarily give much to > > the open source community. > > Personally I think it is wrong to demand that anyone give anything > away unless they want to, but it's odd that they have a section > devoted to it here if that's the case: > http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html ---- agreed - Apple doesn't have to give anything to open source community though my understanding is that they have contributed back safari code back to KDE (konqueror) and probably some others. I don't know of anyone demanding anything from Apple. The web page you reference is curious at best: - it refers to 'Leopard' a version of Mac OS X that stopped shipping over a year ago. - opendarwin is dead... http://opendarwin.org/ They promote their ability to run UNIX software, X11 (an XFree86 version) and distribute many of the tools in XCode Tools but I am not monitoring their contributions to the open source community. I will note that they don't bother with releasing any form of quicktime for Linux (or BSD or ???), and only release quicktime for Macintosh and Windows OS. Basically a Macintosh is really cool hardware with a stagnant, proprietary OS with too little generalized software that is applicable for niche usage, with a majority of users with a big chip on their shoulders. Macintosh users typically have a rather interesting perspective that theirs is the anti-Microsoft choice without considering that there are too few contributors to porting OpenOffice.org because they are happy launching an underpowered Microsoft Office 2004. Craig
