think about the fact that Apple opened the source up for darwin (the guts of
OSX). I think thats why they are considered an open source company.
Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: Norbert Cartagena <niccademous@yahoo.com>
To: Suncoast Linux Users Group <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: [SLUG] What is an Open Sourced Company?
> Just finished reading this story in Newsforge
>
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/05/04/2157218
>
> I noticed one of the companies listed as an Open Source companies was
> Apple. HUH!??!?! Personally, I DON'T think of them as Open Source
> company. I mean, yeah, they put out Darwin, but that was pretty much out
> anyways in the form of *BSD.
>
> SO the quuestion I pose is this: What qualifies as an "Open Source"
> Company? Are they companies who base part of their stuff in already
> existsing code, really giving nothing back? Are they companies who
> simply "work" with open sourced systems (such as if MS made Office and
> Backdoor... err I mean Exchange, and IE work with GNU/Linux and/or *BSD,
> would they be considered an Open Source Copmpany)? What exactly defines
> an Open Source Company?
>
> Norb
>
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