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The kernel is open source, how about everything else? To act like is OSX is open because Darwin is open source is pretty disingenuous.
by habitue 12y ago
The kernel is open source, how about everything else? To act like is OSX is open because Darwin is open source is pretty disingenuous.
- 72deluxe 12y agoTrue, but why does it need to be open anyway? The windows development industry has done well without being OSS, no? Perhaps people should stop expecting OSX to be Linux. In the same way that nobody expects Linux to be OSX.
- habitue 12y agoI definitely don't expect Windows or OS X to turn into Linux. I think they each have advantages for the people who are using them. The grandparent was talking about hackability, and I was saying I don't think OS X counts as hackable just because the kernel is open source. There is a lot more that's closed source surrounding that kernel that makes it OS X.
- 72deluxe 12y agoAh understood. Thanks!