Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Darwin already being developed by
some BSD people. Apple took it to use as the core but has as far as I
know not contributed any changes they made to it for it to be OSX.
On 05 May 2001 11:46:15 -0400, Todd wrote:
> 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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