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The deep irony is that iOS is based on BSD, which is free.

by RachelF 13y ago

aryastark 13y ago
How so? I'm pretty sure RMS would pop out of the bushes right now and yell "told you so!!" That's why he went with GPL over BSD license.
Samuel_Michon 13y ago
No, iOS is based on Darwin (which is free), which is partially based on NeXTSTEP, which in turn was partially based on a mix of the Mach microkernel and BSD4 userland. There’s no telling how much BSD code is actually part of iOS, but stating that ‘iOS is based on BSD’ is like stating that humans are based on fish. Amit Singh[1] created a good presentation[2] about OS X’s innards. That was back in 2006, when OS X contained more NeXTSTEP code than it does now. According to him, the OS X kernel contained 25% BSD code at that time. [1] http://www.kernelthread.com/resume/ http://www.kernelthread.com/resume/ [2] http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/osxinternals/osxinternals.html http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/osxinternals/osxinternals... (Warning: contains Adobe Flash)
belorn 13y ago
A good example to bring up when picking a license. Would the author of a software package be happy having apple using the software, but never receive any attributions back. If the software is good, the CEO of apple get the praise, and the author get forgotten. If its bad, you get the bug reports. We all here know that iOS is built on BSD, but how many can name a single author of that code? How many know the author of the linux kernel?
- X-Istence 13y ago
  How many people know anyone besides Linus Torvalds? FreeBSD for example is a project that was co-founded by Jordan Hubbard, who incidentally also worked at Apple for a long time on OS X... So named a single author, as requested. Linus may be known better, but when you are practically synonymous with badly behaved/child like/tantrum throwing behaviour you may want to rethink why you are well known...
  - Samuel_Michon 13y ago
    Naming your OS after yourself also works, although it takes chutzpah. Not even big ego Steve Jobs named an OS or other product after himself.

The deep irony is that iOS is based on BSD, which is free.

by RachelF 13y ago

The deep irony is that iOS is based on BSD, which is free.

How so? I'm pretty sure RMS would pop out of the bushes right now and yell "told you so!!" That's why he went with GPL over BSD license.

Samuel_Michon 13y ago

No, iOS is based on Darwin (which is free), which is partially based on NeXTSTEP, which in turn was partially based on a mix of the Mach microkernel and BSD4 userland. There’s no telling how much BSD code is actually part of iOS, but stating that ‘iOS is based on BSD’ is like stating that humans are based on fish. Amit Singh[1] created a good presentation[2] about OS X’s innards. That was back in 2006, when OS X contained more NeXTSTEP code than it does now. According to him, the OS X kernel contained 25% BSD code at that time. [1] http://www.kernelthread.com/resume/ http://www.kernelthread.com/resume/ [2] http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/osxinternals/osxinternals.html http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/osxinternals/osxinternals... (Warning: contains Adobe Flash)

belorn 13y ago

A good example to bring up when picking a license. Would the author of a software package be happy having apple using the software, but never receive any attributions back. If the software is good, the CEO of apple get the praise, and the author get forgotten. If its bad, you get the bug reports. We all here know that iOS is built on BSD, but how many can name a single author of that code? How many know the author of the linux kernel?

X-Istence 13y ago
How many people know anyone besides Linus Torvalds? FreeBSD for example is a project that was co-founded by Jordan Hubbard, who incidentally also worked at Apple for a long time on OS X... So named a single author, as requested. Linus may be known better, but when you are practically synonymous with badly behaved/child like/tantrum throwing behaviour you may want to rethink why you are well known...
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago
  Naming your OS after yourself also works, although it takes chutzpah. Not even big ego Steve Jobs named an OS or other product after himself.