Quoting David Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > IIRC correctly, the only proprietary fork of BSD after it became > unencumbered was NeXT. It would be interesting to hear from Steve Jobs > why he made NeXT closed but Darwin open. I suspect it was due to the > pressure of trying to keep a closed fork in sync with a moving open > target.
Yes, I think he made the reasonable judgement that maintaining a separate fork behind closed doors was no longer remotely justifiable, economically. And Darwin, indeed, proved upon public release to be in a very sorry state, compared to FreeBSD. The Darwin community plus ex-Wind River people hired on by Apple have been very busy bring it back up to date. -- Cheers, If C gives you enough rope to hang yourself, then C++ gives you enough Rick Moen to bind and gag your neighbourhood, rig the sails on a small ship, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and still have enough to hang yourself from the yardarm. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
