Apple to users: Don't hack your Intel Mac

Uh, this is stupid and very misleading. Apple never released x86 kernel and drivers so stating that it is restricting it is incorrect. Darwin was and is still open, and is always missed bunch of proprietary stuff that is in the OSX. There is no double talk by Apple. Darwin is still open as it has always been and nothing has been removed from it. and Darwin is the only thing that was ever open about OSX.

I also think the same as mungler (#5), it's being closed because Mach is being replaced.

this is indeed misleading and old, but most of the major apple news sites have picked up on it.

HOWEVER, am i the only one who thinks this might have something to do with replacing Mach, rather than because of piracy?

You're forgetting that Apple has *always* kept parts of Mac OS X proprietary, which is of course why Darwin is not the same as Mac OS X. All they have done is make a small modification to which parts are proprietary, to prevent Darwin being used to recreate a "free" Mac OS X, which has always been the strategy.

So in effect, nothing has changed.

This is apparently old and misleading news. Refer to this comment on slashdot:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185992&cid=15351035

I think disappointed would be the word here. Double talk about open source then closing the kernal is just that. If Apple wants to be different, pick one or the other. I still think that if they would get a good authentication model for serializing the OS, they would have a lot more people buying "white boxes" and putting OS X on it. But the magic 8-ball says "outlook not so good".

Looks like someone is a little angry with their computer manufacturer today. :)