Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:47:06 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: wsanchez@apple.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple's open source... Message-ID: <v04011713b31c3e311cce@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <199903191936.LAA33678@scv4.apple.com>
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At 11:37 AM -0800 3/19/99, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: >Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>: >| We do need to improve the visibility of the *BSD connection, > > We are trying, by the way, with the advertising clause. The > installation manual for Mac OS X Server (both printed and on-disk) > includes a big list of acknolwegdements for the BSD stuff as well as > every other copyright I could find (just to be fair, even though it's > not required). Keep in mind that it's not a trivial thing to paste > that much spew into every document we produce. I wasn't thinking of Apple's actions, so much as the articles that various web sites have about MacOS Ten Server. While many of those articles will talk about "BSD 4.4", I haven't noticed any of them which mention any of FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD. Not even once. >"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>: >| If Apple actually contributes code back, I won't actually care so >| much what their PR dept. does or does not acknowledge. It would be >| *very nice* to get public acknowledgement, don't get me wrong, but >| there are all kinds of "technology partners" out there and the ones >| who contribute technical assistance (bug fixes, reports, etc) are >| just as valuable in their own way. > > We'd love to get a better-established relationship with FreeBSD, > as I mentioned before. We really like FreeBSD. We have a nice > arrangement with NetBSD and a really excellent one with the Apache > Group. I think we may want to be more plublic about these things; it > may be good for all involved. I'll see what I can do about that. > > In fact, I'm still looking to use FreeBSD libraries in the future, > and I've even started some of the porting work, though I keep > getting distracted. :-) Well, this seems pretty encouraging to me! (note: I'm the main Macintosh support guy on the RPI campus, so I have an interest in this from both the Mac and FreeBSD sides...). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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