From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 04:26:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA5F16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:26:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8603643D5E for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:26:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i5U4Qbr5043816; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:26:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:26:37 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: zera holladay Message-ID: <20040630042637.GA6574@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1088557263.3528.102.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com> <20040630041529.76490.qmail@web41405.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040630041529.76490.qmail@web41405.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MacOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:26:38 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 29), zera holladay said: > > Even more interestingly, just how much code has migrated from > > Darwin to FreeBSD? Apple seems to do a lot of taking from the Open > > Source community, how much have we taken much back? > > I was wondering about this ... there was a thread not too long ago > about Darwin and FreeBSD. Somebody made the point that code seems to > go into Darwin but no code is returned. Only because few people have gone through the Darwin tree and pulled out changes. It does happen (grep for darwin in the commitlogs), but since there's no-one being paid to do it, you get much less code going in that direction. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com