On Nov 15, 2012, at 2:29 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: >> >> Apple itself also uses a lot of OSS in the depth of Mac OS X. Just the >> GUI, “Aqua”, and the applications are closed source by Apple. >> Even the browser uses OSS: WebKit. > > Indeed so, including much of the OS X kernel, which predates the founding > of Apple Inc (formerly Apple Computer Inc) by several years. > > Just invoke, say, on a Hackintosh, OS X using the -v (verbose) boot > option, and you will immediately see the BSD (Berkeley Standard > Distribution) copyright, "Copyright by The Regents of The University of > California", and an exhaustive list of copyright years, many of which > pre-date the founding of Apple itself.
Well according to the canonical listing of the Unix Family Tree, (<http://www.levenez.com/unix/>) BSD1 dates to 1978; so Apple Predates BSD, although AT&T Unix predates Apple by several years. Also Apple is one of the few companies to have produced version on both sides of the Great Schism; between System V and BSD. OS X is based on the BSD line (why the Califoria Board Of Regents copyrights are there) but A/UX, Apples FIRST Unix, was a System V-based system. The opnly other one I'm familiar with is HP's HPUX, which was a frankenunix cobbled together from the corpses of HP's original workstation versions (based on System V) and Apollo's (based on BSD) when HP swallowed them up. <shudder> Burn it. Burn it with fire! Commands were an unpredicatble mix of BSD and SysV syntax. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
