From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Mikhail Ramendik <mr@ramendik.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: A BSD-licensed kernel is already available
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:52:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041010215209.GA32000@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BF997E3-1B04-11D9-BE3A-000393ACC76E@mac.com>
[it's getting really offtopic now, but anyway..]
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 05:34:58PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2004, at 06:41, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> >Big commercial support for BSD might be seen as a long-awaited
> >revolution, at least by them.
>
> Err, it's already happened. Mac OS X is BSD-based and open
> source, and it has a pretty large amount of commercial support
> (see Apple's Mac OS X Server). I think I recall some recent
> statistics that showed that OS X has the largest market share of
> any of the BSDs, but I could be wrong.
MacOS X only has some BSD heriate, but lots of guts from Mach and other
funky things. And large parts are not BSD licensed but under Apple's own
pseudo-Free Software license.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-10 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-10 10:41 A BSD-licensed kernel is already available Mikhail Ramendik
2004-10-10 14:30 ` Matt Kavanagh
2004-10-10 17:39 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-10 17:47 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-10 21:34 ` [OT] " Kyle Moffett
2004-10-10 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-10-10 23:14 ` Lee Revell
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