--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> sparaig wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >   
> >> --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Steve Job's announced earlier today.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The iPhone
> >>>       
> >> Is it based on MacOS X like the Apple TV is, I wonder? THAT would be a 
> >> scaleable 
product. 
> >>     
> > It's 
> >   
> >> basically a tablet PC/phone combo sans handwriting recognition, as far as 
> >> I can tell.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > And yes it is. Apple's apparently now got a scalable MacOS X that works 
> > from iPhones 
to 
> > servers.
> More likely a form of Linux.  They probably already have built a version 
> of Linux that looks like the MacOS.  They probably would have gone with 
> Linux over Unix if SCO hadn't been scaring everyone.   And they would 
> have a lot more companies developing apps for the Mac too.
> 

How's that GPL for value-added stuff linked to the libraries?

> Many consumer electronics devices like this start out with a small 
> implementation of Linux running a prototype.  They may even ship this 
> way and eventually everything is put into a chipset instead.
>

So you think it's really Linux even though Jobs explicitly claimed it was MacOS 
X?

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