On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi Srini, > > Anyways, Apple is not all that bad, take a look at: > http://www.apple.com/opensource/ > http://www.opensource.apple.com/ > http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1084/ < Source code of > MAC OS X 10.8.4 > http://www.macosforge.org/ I believe OSX kernel is based on a BSD flavor UNIX kernel, so they are liable to opensource the parts of the code. They do not opensource, the important part of their system such as the GUI engine, etc. Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, even Google are companies that support opensource, in a way but the when it comes to something really important like their key technology they won't open source it. *Now back to the main topic:* I do not agree to this article, as the price of Operating System has not gone to 0, but the way they collect the money has just changed. They will just increase the price of the hardware such that, it will appear as the OS is given for Free. Like sometime ago laptop manufactures used to say you will get windows laptop for 35K, hiding the fact that 3K was for the operating system. With the increase in popularity mobile devises such a method of sale (hardware + OS) became more widely accepted such that most people don't know that part of the cost of their phones is for the OS. Until recently for every android phone sold, a price had to be paid to microsoft for using some of their patents[1]. GNU Linux, would be the only OS that is given for free and I mean free in all sense. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-android-phone-2011-5?IR=T -- Harisankar P S https://twitter.com/coder_hsps | http://tech.hsps.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
