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Commentary: Open source's black hole

The year's Big Lie is the assertion that Apple has embraced open source software. Sure, Apple's nextgeneration OS X is based on its Darwin project, which is based on the open source Mach operating system.
Written by ZDNET Editors, Contributor

The year's Big Lie is the assertion that Apple has embraced open source software. Sure, Apple's next generation OS X is based on its Darwin project, which is based on the open source Mach operating system. But the embrace is actually a chokehold. Apple's only interest in open source is what it can extract, both in technology and publicity. Read the column. -- Evan Leibovitch, ZDNet Linux

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