Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:50:25 -0700 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship Message-ID: <6F1715DF-D31C-4610-872D-7A5E8457B8EF@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinqpOeSro5dPJJ-yRa%2BZMDD0Nphu%2B4wd9Raxex7@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinqpOeSro5dPJJ-yRa%2BZMDD0Nphu%2B4wd9Raxex7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 9, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: > This is not a technical question. >=20 > Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing > part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You > could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before > investing money with them. Does anyone know how Apple reciprocates to > FreeBSD? After all a lot of MacOSX is borrowed from FreeBSD. I am > not seeing Apple's name on this page: > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml . Are there > other ways in which Apple might be reciprocating? There are some/a few/several people working at Apple that play or used = to play a large role in FreeBSD. So they were basically paying these = people's salaries for their day job which allowed them to be active in = FreeBSD. Also, there is some code put-back I believe. Most of what Apple used from FreeBSD was the userland and the kernel = interface so that the Darwin kernel could be used with FreeBSD userland = utilities that affect the kernel etc. Mac OS X uses a totally = different underlying kernel and architecture but made a FreeBSD like = kernel interface in order to be able to use certain sets of FreeBSD = stuff.
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