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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by archangel_one on Friday January 11, 2013 @07:04AM (#5042334)
> The majority of OSX/iOS is open source

Really? Large chunks of both are not, so how do you know it's the majority of it that is?

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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by neohaven on Friday January 11, 2013 @09:51AM (#5042862)
That said, it is rather simple to consider : as a general idea, the UI layer (Cocoa for OS X, CocoaTouch for iOS) and a few other things are closed. The rest is pretty open, as darwin in general is OSS.
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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by ZeroGravitas on Friday January 11, 2013 @10:01AM (#5042916)
Not the lower "Darwin" layers of iOS, they've never released that.
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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by neohaven on Friday January 11, 2013 @10:19AM (#5043000)
The "darwin layer" in iOS is fairly inexistant. When have you started a shell on a non-jailbroken iPhone? ;)
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Re:Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (2003) by ZeroGravitas on Friday January 11, 2013 @11:17AM (#5043288)
I actually meant all the lower layers including kernel and drivers etc. Which do exist, and have not been released.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

"Darwin is now only available as source code,[4] except for the ARM variant, which has not been released in any form separately from iOS."

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