On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 13:10 -0700, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: > Look at 'big evil corporations' like apple. They did in a year with > mach what the FSF/GNU wants to do with HURD and still cant (to quote > stallman 'its really hard' while explaining why after 10 years HURD > still doesnt exist). Apple was able to do this largely because they > paid people to do it. That money had to come from somewhere. While > apple did release darwin (the mach microkernel+ BSD components - but no > mac components so largely not highly useful) under a license even the > FSF claims is 'free'. Had it not been for the 'big evil corporations' > that would not have existed at all.
You're fairly off base with that paragraph. Mach was developed at Carnegie Mellon. I'm not sure when it was started, but it was up and running (with a full OS on top of it) when I was an undergrad there in 1984. NeXT took the CMU Mach and built an operating system on top of it. That was up and running by 1988. Apple bought NeXT in late 1996. Apple released MacOS X based on NeXT's software in 2001 So, it's no where near Apple talking a year to do what GNU was trying to do. You could argue it took Apple over 20 years to develop MacOS X. They also took a significant amount of open source developed code (Mach, BSD, etc) to do so. I'm a big fan of paying people to get development done in a timely manner, but this really doesn't make your claim. - |Daryll _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users