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
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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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