Apple launches new site for open source projects
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 31, 2006 at 11:10am
Apple has launched Mac OS Forge, a new community development site hosted designed to support Web Kit and other open source projects focused on Mac OS X.
In addition, developers can create and browse third-party open source projects that are closely related to the Mac operating system. Current projects on Mac OS Forge include source code to the new iCal Server in Leopard Server, and Apache-licensed versions of Bonjour service discovery and Launchd process management.
While select projects in Mac OS X are featured on Mac OS Forge, a complete set of open source software within Mac OS X can be found by visiting the Apple Developer Connection.
Here’s what Apple has to say about the site in a note at the Mac OS Forge page: “Mac OS X includes a wide variety of open source software from FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, the GNU Project, and many more projects each its own vibrant developer community. Mac OS Forge is dedicated to supporting the developer community surrounding open source components specific to Mac OS X. Here you will find resources for working with the source code to popular Apple-original projects, as well as third party projects that are closely related to the Macintosh operating system.”
Peter Says:
I’d love to see them put the iApps on MacOSforge, and allow people the option to use community versions of them. :-) I think that would be groovy. As in, OS X ships with Apple’s version of iPhoto, iTunes, etc. but there’s always community versions for people to thinker with new features. They could still charge for the apple version, maybe because they’d have .mac or something? Or they could just charge for .mac? Because then the open stuff could create a .mac alternative for personal use; like .mac, but one can host on ones own computer. Hope that made sense.
Posted on August 31, 2006
Claudio Says:
Your link points to “http:///” and not to the desired location.
And yes, this is rather old. Apple announced this during WWDC last month. Check out the date on the Welcome page:
Posted on September 01, 2006
Dale Cruse Says:
Linky no worky.
Posted on September 01, 2006
jeff Says:
that site looks like it was built by a 6 yr old, wtf????
Posted on September 01, 2006
Dustin Says:
At least it’s better than most open source sites… usually they look like they were build by a four yr old!
Posted on September 01, 2006
Thomas Says:
And they are closing it down… is something better being implemented by Apple? Looks like they dont have much?
Posted on September 01, 2006
Eric Goldberg Says:
Nice link to localhost in the first sentence. ;)
Posted on September 01, 2006
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
wtf? Says:
this is not news. other sites reported this some time ago.
Posted on August 31, 2006