on 6/20/01 7:45 PM, G. T. Francisco, III at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Sinabi ni Ricky Munoz noong Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:07:59AM +0800 GMT:
> <snip>
>> concept but at the same time, benefit from it. Apple at least makes no bones
>> about the fact that they based the OSX kernel on FreeBSD. In fact they
>> available to developers. Microsoft should do the same and simply comply with
>> open source licenses and include whatever code they borrow with their
>> software distributions.
> 
> Yes, Apple has been supportive but if I recall correctly, they have a
> different type of license, it's not GPL.
> 

True but at least they acknowledge the fact that they are basing their code
on FreeBSD and encourage and open exchange of information. This is a big
improvement over their pre-iCEO behavior and is certainly a lot more honest
than Microsoft.

rmunoz


> Cheers,
> 
> g-3
> 
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