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> Was there a company that got into open-source because it was tired of how the public could just go "mucking" about in their code base without reservation? Wha
by molecule 14y ago
> Was there a company that got into open-source because it was tired of how the public could just go "mucking" about in their code base without reservation? What does that even mean?
Well, there's Red Hat w/ their Enterprise Linux distributions, and Apple w/ the FreeBSD-derived iOS and OSX. You can't fork and distribute either of those products without incurring the wrath of their respective owners' very diligent lawyers.
- leohutson 14y agoReally? I have seen plenty of RHEL "forks", CentOS, Scientific Linux to name a few. Apple's OSX isn't open source in any sense, sure it has components based on liberally licensed open source code, but so does almost every other proprietary software product.
- semisight 14y agoWhy can't you distribute them? Apple's Darwin is mostly under the APSL, which you can edit and distribute, just not under a different license. Likewise, RHEL is open--the trademark is not.