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Back in those days, Apple was all about open-source - I still have an OSX 10.2 (Jaguar) box somewhere where the main headline is about Apple and open-source. (
by rahoulb 14y ago
Back in those days, Apple was all about open-source - I still have an OSX 10.2 (Jaguar) box somewhere where the main headline is about Apple and open-source.
(Just found this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenf/5393674266/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenf/5393674266/)
I guess there's still a lot of open-source in OSX, but they don't need to shout about it now that they are no longer the underdogs.
- eps 14y agoI think they were just trying to piggy-back on BSD reputation as stable and mature system, so they played the buddy-buddy card. Once OS X settled in its place, this was no longer needed, so the open source love faded.
- pretoriusB 14y agoIt's not like the open source itself or the open source love thrived anywhere else in the Desktop anyway...
- microtherion 14y agoWhile there might be less shouting about open source contributions nowadays, arguably the contributions themselves are much more useful. Certainly WebKit has been widely adopted outside Apple, clang/llvm is slowly, but surely gaining converts, and libdispatch is IMHO deserving of wider interest, even though it may not be widely adopted on non-Apple platforms.