On 1/12/2011 4:16 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

Apple, for example, went proprietary with the freedom provided by
BSD contributions in XNU.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

Look at Apple now: A niche player in computers, and highly
successful with iPods, iPhones and the like.

We tend to minimize that with which we disagree.

"iOS is derived from Mac OS X, with which it shares the Darwin
foundation, and is therefore a Unix-like operating system by nature."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_%28Apple%29

And. . . Boom: Apple Worth More Than Microsoft.
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100526/apple-worth-more-than->microsoft/

Sincerely,
RJack :)

Capitalism Triumphs!
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