Hi John;
Here's the other thing from a developer standpoint...if they ever were to open source it, it would surely be APSL and not GPL so you could never borrow any of the code for anything anyway. Most Linux distributions won't touch the APSL (see launchd and bonjour). So really what would be the point? Just so you could recompile it? You can already override/replace almost any part of the framework. Or is there something in the current in the current license that's bugging you?
On the path to WO 5.4.3 over 2007/2008, and simply when I'm trying to understand specific behaviours, not having the source-code was/is quite annoying -- I would have thought that it would be beneficial for Apple to have all of us being able to submit suggested solutions into Radar rather than just problems. Real engineering problems however are, in my opinion, dwarfed by the political issues around having no source-access and releases managed as "surprises" to the user base.
cheers. ___ Andrew Lindesay www.lindesay.co.nz _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
