Apple Open Source

I don't know why, but it's worth comparing it with ... <a href="http://code.google.com/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/</a><p>I really can't put my finger on it, but the message from those pages kind of show what kind of companies they are ...<p>* Apple doesn't care much, but here, a clean design with links to resources<p>* Google is like ... hey, we're cool open-source people, come join<p>* Microsoft is like ... "we partner with open source-based businesses and communities", bla, bla, here's a list of news

It's also fun to go to the iPhone's page:<p>Settings &#62; General &#62; About &#62; Legal<p>Lost of licenses and attributions you might not otherwise expect!

This is not completely a new site, but good to know, so +1<p>also, consider having a look at <a href="http://www.macosforge.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.macosforge.org/</a>

Interesting that the Objective-C runtime has a VS solution file and Windows #ifs: <a href="http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-437.1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-437.1/</a>

Is it possible to create an iphone app and put it on just <i>your iphone</i> (i.e. no distribution) using this software ?<p>Ofcourse I mean without jail-breaking the iphone or without enrolling in the iphone developer program.<p>Has anyone here tried this?

Apple's open source page is as useful as having Tivo's open source code. If they won't let me code for the iphone on my pc then it's hardly useful or open.

Nice to see, but in my mind this is just "Oh hey look at all of the FOSS software we are using but not providing back to."<p>Sure they did do CUPS, but what else has apple given back to the open source community, besides another source mirror?