Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 12:05:13 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20061106180513.GA24783@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <17743.22440.901224.928843@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> <454EB6D6.3030807@infowest.com> <454EBEEC.1060002@u.washington.edu> <454F210C.9000602@outstep.com> <20061106151007.GD23884@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <17743.22440.901224.928843@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:41:28AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > David Kelly writes: > > > Yes, basically. FreeBSD is free for the taking, so Apple > > took. Steve Jobs' NeXT team had a lot of familiarity with Mach, > > so they took from there also too. A good number of well known > > FreeBSD people now work for Apple, there are a number of FreeBSD > > device drivers shipping with MacOS X. > > In the interest of perspective, it's worth noting this has not > be a one-sided arrangement. Apple has contributed substantial > debugging info and even blocks of code - often for the kind of > boring/unglamorous stuff which doesn't get a lot of attention in > mostly volunteer project. Yes! Thanks for bringing that up. I particularly remember Apple's work on NFS. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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