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Source? This is unfounded. Also Apple bought the rights to BSD before FreeBSD existed, back when it was BSD4.3 and FreeBSD would not arrive for over a decade l

Source? This is unfounded. Also Apple bought the rights to BSD before FreeBSD existed, back when it was BSD4.3 and FreeBSD would not arrive for over a decade later. Apple also hired a lot of FreeBSD's programmers (including their founder) full-time and some of Apple's technologies such as LLVM have made their way back to FreeBSD.

smoldesu 5y ago
> Source? https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationType=individual&donationYear=2021 https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationTyp... > This is unfounded. Also Apple bought the rights to BSD before FreeBSD existed. You're right. But they still poach millions of lines from FreeBSD for XNU/Darwin, since the patches are largely compatible. One would think they'd be willing to give back to the developers who write their code for them, but you'd be mistaken. Much like the App Store, it would appear that Apple is interested more in squeezing value from whoever they can and throwing them aside when they no longer make a case for their value. "The BSD portion of the OS X kernel is derived primarily from FreeBSD, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features." https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/BSD/BSD.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...