FreeBSD and MacOS

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Jun 29 21:26:38 PDT 2004


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 at allantgroup.com


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