Have you approached Apple for the source code they use in OSX?
[ "you" is not clearly defined. ]
Sure. I am or was reasonably familiar with the source code Apple has released, and there are FreeBSD committers who now work at Apple.
I thought open source meant that you could use the code but any changes / modifications had to be made available to the originator and the community under terms of most open source licenses.
Yes, the Apple license is open source, which means that source to most of MacOS X is indeed available as a project called Darwin:
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apsl-2.0.php
There is also anonymous-CVS and CVS-over-SSH available.
I would class the entire port that Apple did as a huge change.
OK.
I am not a UN*X user, nor do I understand most of UN*X, although my reasons for visiting your site and for making the above suggestion are as follows:
It is unclear whether you are in the right mailing list (freebsd-advocacy?), although you did ask questions. :-)
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4. Most of All - I think that the development of PPC FreeBSD code by the originators of the code would keep the PPC code centralised, up to date with other ports and most of all, help Apple (if they are then willing to use your code base).
There is a reasonable amount of cross-pollination between the two projects, although the focus is somewhat different. I would be more likely to run MacOS X on Intel hardware than I would be to run FreeBSD on a PowerPC box, frankly, but to some extent that would depend on what I planned to do with the machine.
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