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Apple gives people who want to make use of their beautiful code the finger. Why not do the same to potential Steve Jobs'? If BSD had been licensed under the GNU

by thelel 13y ago

Apple gives people who want to make use of their beautiful code the finger. Why not do the same to potential Steve Jobs'? If BSD had been licensed under the GNU GPL, OS X would either have to have been built from scratch, or be free software.

yxhuvud 13y ago
They also backport a lot of it upstream to FreeBSD. It is not a black and white question.
- belorn 13y ago
  If one go by market share, the code sent back upstream are worth far less than 1% of Os X.
  - yxhuvud 13y ago
    So? That doesn't change that Apple usage of FreeBSD codebase is still a net win for the FreeBSD project. It is still a win-win situation even if the win isn't totally symmetrical.