>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>BTW, do you know why they chose BSD rather than Linux for the basis of OS X? > > I'd suggest that it has to do with Nextstep, which was the previous > attempt to put Mac over unix. Apparently there are a lot of extensions > to Unix underneath OSX prefaced with "ns". Linux is sort of a mismash > of SysV and BSD unix, with more SysV in general, so it might not have > worked as well for apple as pure BSD. > > It may also have to do with the fact that Linux is distributed under the > GPL and copyright to Linus Torvalds, both of which may have been some > legal issue somehow.
>To be totally accurate, Linux is copyright to all the people who have >ever contributed to it, of whom Linus Torvalds is obviously one. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds and no other, I believe. He is still the originator, and the first and only maintainer and definer of what is the linux kernel. Presumably WindowsPDQ is not copyright to all those guys in Redmond, but to the corporate entity? I'm told that the guy who invented post-it notes got something like a $300 bonus, 'cause he worked for 3M. DJE
