Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 23:30:18 +0200 From: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <20010526233018.P13617@messiah.megadeb.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105262306060.319-100000@molly.telia.com>; from fredrik@speechcraft.com on Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:16:31PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0105261548270.96952-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105262306060.319-100000@molly.telia.com>
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On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:16:31PM +0000, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > On Sat, 26 May 2001, David Scheidt wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > > > > : > > :On Sat, 26 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > :> > However, Apple isn't really a part of the open-source community, and it is > > :> > > :> Really? I know a lot of Darwin / OpenPlay / NetSprocket / CDSA folks > > :> who would vehemently disagree with you there! See publicsource.apple.com > > :> and also the Apple Public Source License (APSL). > > : > > :I meant the're not a part of the Slashdot in-crowd :) > > > > That's not really a very useful definition. The /. in crowd seems less > > interested in the technical merits of a thing than whether it's cool > > enough for them. > > This is true. Somehow, though, I have gotten a feeling that while Apple > certainly have "embraced" (I hate that word) open-source, they, as a > company, aren't that commited to the open-source community (again, I might > be wrong). While the kernel of MacOS is BSD-based, is really the rest of This isn't really in spirit with the rest of the discussion, but I'm under the firm impression that the kernel of MacOS X is based on MACH, with a BSD compatibility layer on top...does that layer bite into the kernel or what? -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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