I recently wrote about Tom Yager’s piece from Infoworld. His basic claim was that the x86 version of the OS X kernel was becoming closed source. It looks like he jumped to his conclusion. It didn’t read like speculation at all. He wrote it definitively. Well, I think Apple might know a little more.
Just to be clear, Tom Yager was speculating about why we have — so far — not released the source code of the kernel for Intel-based Macintoshes. We continue to release all the Darwin sources for our PowerPC systems, and so far has released all the non-kernel Darwin sources for Intel.
Nothing has been announced, so he (and everyone else) certainly has the right to speculate. But please don’t confuse “speculation” with “fact.”
The above was written by Ernest Prabhakar, Apple’s Product Manager, Open Source & Open Standards. I think maybe the original article should have been written differently. Anyone else get that feeling?
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