Re: [OT] Re: A BSD-licensed kernel is already available

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sun Oct 10 2004 - 18:18:52 EST


On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 17:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> [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.

4.4BSD was based on Mach.

Lee

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