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I wonder if history will repeat itself, will Valve be the next Apple? Apple took FreeBSD and makes it into OSX. > Valve takes Linux and makes it into SteamOS.

I wonder if history will repeat itself, will Valve be the next Apple? Apple took FreeBSD and makes it into OSX. > Valve takes Linux and makes it into SteamOS. Apple makes iTunes for music, unifying digital music download > Valve makes Steam for games, unifying digital game download Apple make IPOD for digital music playing > Valve make (SteamBox?) for game playing Damn I wish I could own some Valve stock...

Symmetry 13y ago
The differences in licensing between the BSD license and GPL are designed to prevent them from doing all of what Apple did with FreeBSD.
- GalacticDomin8r 13y ago
  > what Apple did with FreeBSD Please tell us what Apple did with FreeBSD.
quiesce 13y ago
> Apple took FreeBSD and makes it into OSX. No, they took NeXTSTEP and made it into OS X. However much they may now have in common, the history of the codebase goes back years prior to the existence of FreeBSD.
- GalacticDomin8r 13y ago
  Let's try again with facts: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2008-August/003674.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2008-Aug...