On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:41:28AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > David Kelly writes: > > > Yes, basically. FreeBSD is free for the taking, so Apple > > took. Steve Jobs' NeXT team had a lot of familiarity with Mach, > > so they took from there also too. A good number of well known > > FreeBSD people now work for Apple, there are a number of FreeBSD > > device drivers shipping with MacOS X. > > In the interest of perspective, it's worth noting this has not > be a one-sided arrangement. Apple has contributed substantial > debugging info and even blocks of code - often for the kind of > boring/unglamorous stuff which doesn't get a lot of attention in > mostly volunteer project.
Yes! Thanks for bringing that up. I particularly remember Apple's work on NFS. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
