- #DARWIN PROJECT SHUTTING DOWN FOR MAC#
- #DARWIN PROJECT SHUTTING DOWN SOFTWARE#
- #DARWIN PROJECT SHUTTING DOWN ZIP#
I welcome these developers into the linux fold, or if they are of the BSD type I hope they help the BSDs to gain more userbase/marketshare as linux has already done. If you are “a cut above the rest” and wish to develop for the mac platform you have to do it EXACTLY as apple wishes otherwise you are smacked down. I’ve sometimes looked at this similarly to a woman who is in a abusive relationship.
#DARWIN PROJECT SHUTTING DOWN FOR MAC#
Look at how they’ve fought against the guys at the osX86(or whatever that website is called, it slips my mind at the moment) project.Īpple has made it incredibly hard over the years for mac lovers to adequately fawn over their apple/mac. They arguably lost the huge marketshare that they had all those years ago because of the fact that PC/standards are alot more open.(though yes there are other reasons, this one stands out) Look at their hardware, for years look at their hardware.
#DARWIN PROJECT SHUTTING DOWN ZIP#
Now just let me zip up my flame-retardant suit…Īpple has never been a fan of open standards. You don’t think Adobe will dominate their markets forever, do you? The big ISVs of the future are today’s small ones, and they’re gradually flocking to free software. Small ISVs are leaving the Mac platform at an alarming rate, possibly faster than Microsoft is alienating them.īoth platforms will keep their big ISVs, but they can have them.
#DARWIN PROJECT SHUTTING DOWN SOFTWARE#
When it’s so easy to become an active contributor and eventually take on a leadership role in a project like Gentoo or FreeBSD, why waste your effort submitting patches through an inconvenient and unresponsible corporate filter?Īpple would have had to try much harder and open up more of its software in order to build the kind of community they need to get to the next level. These days it’s hard for a proprietary software vendor or even for some commercial OSS vendors to establish a community of active developers when the free software communities offer every opportunity a volunteer developer or tester could ever want. The problem is that the bar for community building has been raised quite a few notches since Win32 came along. As we’ve seen with Microsoft, the key to turning your platform into an institution is to foster an incredibly strong development community. When OSX first came out, I thought that Apple really had a second (third? fourth?) chance to build a personal computing empire. Right, the recent string of news is hard to interpret as anything other than Apple’s development and user communities beginning to crumble.
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