From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 23:07:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A78FC106566B for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:07:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from mail.shire.net (mail.shire.net [209.41.94.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E11F8FC1C for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-67-172-236-20.hsd1.ut.comcast.net ([67.172.236.20] helo=[192.168.99.216]) by mail.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.51) id 1PxSD4-000DA3-7J; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:50:26 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:50:25 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <6F1715DF-D31C-4610-872D-7A5E8457B8EF@shire.net> References: To: Nerius Landys X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.172.236.20 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:07:01 -0000 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.