{"id":304,"date":"2006-08-14T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=304"},"modified":"2006-08-14T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T21:30:33","slug":"wish-list-of-for-open-source-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/08\/14\/wish-list-of-for-open-source-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish list of for Open Source + Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Computers<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple announced their open source efforts last Monday<\/a>, releasing Mac OS Forge<\/a>. Which was funny at the time: in my pre-coffee morning haze I was day-dreaming a conversation with Steve Jobs where RedMonk told him that Apple should get more involved with open source. “Are you crazy?!” he responded, “Why would I give away what I can sell? Next thing you’ll be telling me we should make it easy for people to dump Apple<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Clearly, I can’t day-dream accurately without coffee. The whole train of fantasy was kicked off by my frustration with Mail.app using proprietary storage instead of standard mboxes, and the resulting annoyance of having to use Thunderbird to feel “safe” after The OS X Defectors freaked me out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Loosening the lips…if only a tad<\/h2>\n

My view of Apple is that they’re tight-lipped and don’t collaborate much with the open source community I know. So, it’s tentatively encouraging to see that they’re working with OpenDarwin<\/a>. Also, as Steve<\/a> will hopefully comment on more, it’s cool to see that XCode 3.0 will include DTrace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Overall, I think it’s great, and I applaud choosing the Apache license, avoiding license NIH<\/a>. Mr. jjb<\/a> has a good “yuh! post” on the topic<\/a>, and as others have pointed out<\/a>, Apple gets awesome-points<\/a> for using trac<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The OSS Wish-list<\/h2>\n

Here’s a couple of things I’d like to see in open source Apple-land:<\/p>\n