> 2010/9/14 Gary <gdri...@gmail.com>: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Eric Andersen > wrote: > >> I concede that OS X was a poor example for the > point I'm trying to make. > > > > Actually, it's a pretty fair comparison. Apple does > not release their > > source to unregistered developers until after a > patch release is made > > available to the general public. > > Not exactly. > Apple does not release their source to _anybody_ > until after the > binary release, be it major or minor, is made > available to the public.
Whatever Apple does or doesn't do, the point I was trying to make was that a whole lot of people are willing to not only accept, but pay for an operating system that is closed source. A very large amount of OS X source code is open and freely available, so it was a bad example of that point. eric -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
