Re: Possibility of open-sourcing GS/OS

[aaron@kitten.net.au (Aaron Howell)]

In article <s3Qbf.1314$yb2.92@news.itd.umich.edu>,
Greg Andrzejewski <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Never gonna happen. Has Apple ever made ANYTHING open-source? Sure, It'd be 
>really, really cool but I think it's just a pipe dream. Frankly, I'm 
>thrilled that they have some of their old OS's for download. Asking for code 
>is pushing it.
Actually, yes, they have.
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/

Apple provides quite a bit of Mac OS X core code for public consumption,
and it is a good netizen in giving back where it has borrowed
(for example, the large amount of saphari code given back to the KDE developers).

Perhaps it would be worth approaching them again,
even the source to prodos and basic.system would be a good start,
and its unlikely there'd be any algorithms in that which are still in use in OS X.
Regards
Aaron