Subject: Re: Quadra 950 status
To: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/24/2000 12:56:31
On Wed, 24 May 2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> So is there an open source contact at Apple anymore (other than the Darwin
> guys)?
Not AFAIK.
> > Also, the one time he and I went out to lunch, he said the emphasis of
> > what he was doing/getting the higher-ups to ok was to make macs appealing
> > for open source hardware sales. i.e. he didn't see the ability/support to
> > get info on discontinued products.
>
> That's rather unfortunate. The big reason Apple has been largely ignored
> by Open Source movements is that only the very latest hardware is
> documented, and those sorts of machines aren't generally the kinds of
> things you want to relegate to running a web server in a closet somewhere.
> :-)
Oh well...
Take care,
Bill