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> The majority of OSX/iOS is open source Really? Large chunks of both are not, so how do you know it's the majority of it that is?
by archangel_one 14y ago
> The majority of OSX/iOS is open source
Really? Large chunks of both are not, so how do you know it's the majority of it that is?
- neohaven 14y agoThat said, it is rather simple to consider : as a general idea, the UI layer (Cocoa for OS X, CocoaTouch for iOS) and a few other things are closed. The rest is pretty open, as darwin in general is OSS.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoNot the lower "Darwin" layers of iOS, they've never released that.
- neohaven 14y agoThe "darwin layer" in iOS is fairly inexistant. When have you started a shell on a non-jailbroken iPhone? ;)
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoI actually meant all the lower layers including kernel and drivers etc. Which do exist, and have not been released. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) "Darwin is now only available as source code,[4] except for the ARM variant, which has not been released in any form separately from iOS."