Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:56:34 -0500 (EST) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple's open source... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903180051370.2438-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <98505.921711276@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Other than complaining on how FreeBSD and NetBSD were not really given > > enough credit in the press releases for this, how do people think this > > Apple strategy will work out wrt *BSD's? > > If Apple actually contributes code back, I won't actually care so > much what their PR dept. does or does not acknowledge. It would be > *very nice* to get public acknowledgement, don't get me wrong, but > there are all kinds of "technology partners" out there and the ones > who contribute technical assistance (bug fixes, reports, etc) are > just as valuable in their own way. > > - Jordan I think we are all forgetting that there is one place that the lineage of the MacOS X sources: the copyright headers in so many files. It's hard to hide this when you distribute the sources. ;-) The advertising clause notwithstanding, copyright law is enforcible. Still, it's pretty cool for a company that was sooooo closed in the past. cheers, Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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