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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> opendarwin-discuss
opendarwin-discuss
Re: OpenDarwin shutting down
by Adrian Gschwend other posts by this author
Jul 31 2006 4:25AM messages near this date
Re: OpenDarwin shutting down | Re: OpenDarwin shutting down
Rob Braun wrote:

>  The only thing waiting until WWDC to announce OD's closure would
>  have done is possibly steal some of Apple's thunder.  While that may
>  be temporarily gratifying, it would accomplish nothing.  We are
>  done, I am done.  Closing OpenDarwin is not a publicity stunt or a
>  bargaining chip.  It is an announcement of a sad fact, and an 
>  admission that 6 years of my, and other's, involvement has been a 
>  failure or worse, contributed to a marketing scheme.  This is not 
>  something to be defiantly proud of or gloat over.  We're done, we'd 
>  like to move on and to the best of our ability not screw over the 
>  people that helped us.

I can fully understand that, thanks for the comments Rob. Sad to hear
that anyway...

I hope that some parts will have a new life in new projects, like IOKit
or L4/Darwin. The design of Darwin is too interesting to dump it, too
bad Apple didn't realize that.

cu

Adrian

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