Apple & FreeBSD relationship

Sander Remie sande.r.emie at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 22:40:49 UTC 2011


The core of apple's os is built on top of darwin which is composed of BSD
and others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

But everything you see in apple's os (that smooth UI) is not BSD, only the
underlying core is. Better do some research of your own.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com>wrote:

> Quoth Nerius Landys on Wednesday, 09 March 2011:
> > This is not a technical question.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > - Nerius
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> Better yet, just send the money to the FreeBSD Foundation.
>
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