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Apple Unleashes Source For Latest Evolution Of Darwin (7.0)

October 29th, 2003 at 2:00 PM - News by Vern Seward

Apple has posted it latest version of Darwin. Version 7.0 coincides with the release of OS X 10.3. Newsforge, the Open Source News Source, has posted an interesting article, titled Apple releases source code for Darwin 7.0 that highlights Appleis Open Source strategy. Hereis a bit of the article:

That Apple is turning so much more of its attention toward the open source community is an obvious overarching business strategy.

"Well, you know, we relied on proprietary systems for a long, long time, and you can see how that turned out," said a tongue-in-cheek Apple sales engineer Bill Lloyd, who was demonstrating the new Panther system Tuesday at the Mac OS X conference here at the Westin Hotel.

"Look at all the good (open source) work thatis already out there," Lloyd said. "We (Apple) need to make sure we can leverage the open source community as best we can from now on. Weire trying to make some friends."

The article goes on with detail on some of the improvements Apple has made to its Open Source offering, and to its development environment. We suggestion that you stop by Newsforge and read the full article.

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