Not Open Sourcing Apple’s Apps
Doing your guerrilla UI hacking by way of scripting and plug-ins solves all the forking issues mentioned earlier—you’re not modifying the application itself, on disk, so you won’t interfere with system updates or the interaction between the application and the rest of the system. And it’s easier to share your work with others—“try my script” is a lot more appealing than “try my custom binary of iCal.”
