Personally, I can't see that there'd be many people out there
excited at the prospect of hacking portions of things like MacOS X to
begin with, especially in those cases where ultimate control of what goes
in and what doesn't lies with the entity that published the code, as is
the case with this initiative as well as a few others (Sun's open-source
initiatives also come to mind.)
I mean, Netscape's license was a lot less restrictive in terms of
what happens to extensions and changes to the code, and a year later
they're admitting that most of the work done on the Mozilla source base
has since then has still been done in house - that they had a lot of
trouble getting the developer community excited about hacking it. and
that's Netscape - I mean, granted, it's C++ and there aren't as many C++
hackers as C hackers, but if people aren't getting excited about hacking
netscape why would they get excited about MacOS X?
I'm not saying that I have a specific answer to that question; I'm
just wondering what other people think.
Matt
"The military is a terrible, inefficient bureacracy, but nobody's come up
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