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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
	Mikhail Ramendik <mr@ramendik.ru>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: A BSD-licensed kernel is already available
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:14:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097450060.1421.3.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041010215209.GA32000@infradead.org>

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 17:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> [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.

4.4BSD was based on Mach.

Lee  


      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-10 23:17 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
2004-10-10 23:14     ` Lee Revell [this message]

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