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===OpenDarwin===
[[File:GNOME 2 running on openDarwin (2004).png|thumb|[[GNOME]] running on GNU-Darwin]]

OpenDarwin was a community-led operating system based on the Darwin system. It was founded in April 2002 by [[Apple Inc.]] and [[Internet Systems Consortium]]. Its goal was to increase collaboration between Apple developers and the [[free software community]]. Apple benefited from the project because improvements to OpenDarwin would be incorporated into Darwin releases; and the free/open-source community benefited from being given complete control over its own operating system, which could then be used in free software distributions such as GNU-Darwin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opendarwin.org/|title=OpenDarwin|publisher=OpenDarwin Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060106092328/http://www.opendarwin.org/|archive-date=January 6, 2006}}</ref>

On July 25, 2006, the OpenDarwin team announced that the project was shutting down, as they felt OpenDarwin had "become a mere hosting facility for Mac OS X related projects", and that the efforts to create a standalone Darwin operating system had failed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/jul/26/opendarwinshut|title=OpenDarwin Shutting Down|work=[[The Guardian]]|first=Jack|last=Schofield|date=2006-07-26|access-date=2023-03-18}}</ref> They also state: "Availability of sources, interaction with Apple representatives, difficulty building and tracking sources, and a lack of interest from the community have all contributed to this."<ref>{{cite web|author=OpenDarwin Core Team and Administrators|date=July 25, 2006|url=http://www.opendarwin.org/en/news/shutdown.html|title=OpenDarwin Shutting Down|publisher=OpenDarwin Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060804104416/http://opendarwin.org/|archive-date=August 4, 2006}}</ref> The last stable release was version 7.2.1, released on July 16, 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.opendarwin.org/en/news/opendarwin721.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805095039/http://www.opendarwin.org/en/news/opendarwin721.html|archive-date=2004-08-05|url-status=dead|title=OpenDarwin 7.2.1 Released|date=2004-08-05|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>