On 12 Feb 2004, at 2:49 PM, Matthew Hunter wrote: > It's true that Apple gets some points for adopting a UNIX-based > model, but it's also worth noting that they picked BSD because of > the license, not because BSD is necessarily better or worse than > Linux. The GPL would have prevented Apple from taking the Linux > kernel, modifying it, and selling the result as their own work > (perhaps with a line or two of credit). Ah, but you are aware of the Apple open source contributions to Darwin, KHTML, Konqueror, etc? For the part of OS X that is BSD, they have returned the improvements to the open source community. > As for "inherently superior"... they are, after all, trying to > sell you something, even if that something is their free > operating system. It's a matter of opinion, and there are > advantages and disadvantages either way. Here, we definitely agree. ed PS. List moderator - can we have a "reply-to" field added to the list message headers, with the Dragaera.info address in it? -- Ed Hahn / ehahn at isochronism.com "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got an even swing!"