Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:52:09 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Mikhail Ramendik <mr@ramendik.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: A BSD-licensed kernel is already available
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[it's getting really offtopic now, but anyway..]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 05:34:58PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2004, at 06:41, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> >Big commercial support for BSD might be seen as a long-awaited
> >revolution, at least by them.
> 
> Err, it's already happened.  Mac OS X is BSD-based and open
> source, and it has a pretty large amount of commercial support
> (see Apple's Mac OS X Server).  I think I recall some recent
> statistics that showed that OS X has the largest market share of
> any of the BSDs, but I could be wrong.

MacOS X only has some BSD heriate, but lots of guts from Mach and other
funky things.  And large parts are not BSD licensed but under Apple's own
pseudo-Free Software license.

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