"OpenDarwin was originally created with the goal of providing a development environment for building and developing Mac OS X sources as well as developing a standalone Darwin OS derivative. OpenDarwin was meant to be a development community and a proving ground for fixes and features for Mac OS X and Darwin, which could be picked up by Apple for inclusion in the canonical sources. OpenDarwin has failed to achieve its goals in 4 years of operation, and moves further from achieving these goals as time goes on. For this reason, OpenDarwin will be shutting down," says opendarwin.org
Comment: This is sad but hardly surprising. OS X is basically just another proprietary fork of one of the Berkeley BSD versions of Unix -- Wikipedia cites "Sun's SunOS, Sequent's Dynix, NeXT's NeXTSTEP, DEC's Ultrix and OSF/1 AXP (now Tru64 UNIX)" as examples, and OS X is based on NextStep. I've never understood why anyone would devote their open source efforts to one of these sterile branches, which exist only for a commercial company's gain, rather than supporting FreeBSD, OpenBSD (etc) or even the GPL-protected GNU/Linux.
