[oconnor0]

It is interesting to me that I read people criticizing Microsoft for their open sourcing code as doing it for marketing reasons---which seems accurate---but not criticizing Google or Apple or whoever else when they open source code.

[frandroid]

There are plenty of people on this very forum regularly criticizing Google and Apple's open source efforts...

[kick]

Apple doesn't release code under Free licenses for marketing purposes: I'd be surprised if anyone in the marketing department of Apple even realized that they were doing so.

[wvenable]

Apple releases code under free licenses because they are required to and do exactly that minimum required.

[kick]

That's not entirely true. launchd was released under a free license, and it was one of the most interesting innovations in software in a long while, for example.

[pjmlp]

So now copying what Sun, Aix, Tru64 and HP-UX already did is an innovation, I guess it goes with the muster of many Apple "innovations".

[kick]

You're completely wrong in Sun's case, SMF is nothing like launchd.

[pjmlp]

It looks quite similar to me in concept.