” I can understand and applaud the goal, but not the methods,” said Mr. OiGorman. “By limiting published source code to that which is iinfectedi by the GPL [GNU General Public License — editor], Apple is, in my honest opinion, scoring an own goal,” he added, referring to the soccer term that describes a team scoring a goal in its own net.
“We are going through yet another cycle of losing access that we once had,” said Mr. Braun. “This means Darwin/x86 is dead in the water; Darwin/ppc has many closed source components and is a deprecated architecture.
” One has to wonder why Apple even bothers to release non-GPLid source at all, if it is unwilling to cooperate with external developers to increase their return on investment and accept external bug fixes and features.”
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An article at PC Pro offers more background on the situation.
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