Slashdot has a way of blowing things out of the water, but as reported by them here, it looks like Apple may either be 0) taking extra long committing Intel-specific code into Darwin, 1) giving up on Free Software with respect to Darwin, or 2) on their way to closing more and more of the platform.
Full story here.
As many posters on Slashdot noted, I believe people have been silly for ever considering OSX an open and free platform. OSX isn’t free software, just some of its components are.
I like using Mac OSX overall, but my expertise (and heart) are in GNU / Linux based systems. I really hope Apple is either truly just taking a long time freeing the code. They could be simply taking a long time untangling proprietary code that they are license-encumbered to not free; for example, possibly information in drivers written to utilize the TPM chipset.
Mildly depressing, this all is. I hope it turns out well, for those of us who all use non-free operating systems.
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