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The article makes this out to be more complicated than it is. Apple makes it very difficult to use 3rd party kernel modules. That is the whole thing. The open
by upofadown 7y ago
The article makes this out to be more complicated than it is. Apple makes it very difficult to use 3rd party kernel modules. That is the whole thing.
The open source thing is a complete red herring for everyone except the current maintainer who just happened to use some code that might be open source in a different context. The source for the module that could end up in the Apple kernel was never open to begin with. No one else could actually use the result of compiling the code. So the source was not ever open in a way that made any practical difference.
The only moral here is that it is sometimes possible to prevent the use of open source code in some contexts and that Apple sometimes does. We already knew that.
- saagarjha 7y ago> Apple makes it very difficult to use 3rd party kernel modules. That is the whole thing. The open source thing is a complete red herring I would argue that the Apple part is the red herring. It’s boring; it’s common knowledge that they don’t particularly like kernel extensions and it’s somewhat difficult to develop them. > No one else could actually use the result of compiling the code. So the source was not ever open in a way that made any practical difference. Sorry, how did you end up at this conclusion?