On 09/05/2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you *know* whether Apple doesn't pass anything back to Darwin? > > Well, they made a GPL exception *just for themselves only* with CUPS.
Allow me to qualify that a bit more. Yes Apple does apparently give back some code... It looks khtml or Webkit or whatever the marketable term nowadays is does indeed have free Apple code in it, even if they gave it back in ways that were difficult for free developers to adopt and took a long time to actually find their way back to KDE. I've never quite understood what is the difference between Mach, XNU, and Darwin, where the kernel ends and where the operating system begins, and just exactly what is it that Apple took and gave back when it comes down to that. What irks me is that I get the impression that Apple takes a lot more code than it gives back and it uses unfair practices like the GPL exception in CUPS that's just for them only. For me, that GPL exception and all the non-free software they release point to even murkier practices under the surface. If that's what they let us see, what are they hiding from us? I don't hate Apple (nor Microsoft for that matter), but I do think it's likely that they'll be the next monopolists. First IBM, then Microsoft, now Apple. I guess it's time to change masters again. This does not make me happy. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]