On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:52:24AM -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote: > I think Apple stated that they went with FreeBSD because they don't like the GPL. > The reason that they are contributing back to FreeBSD is because they were not > getting support from OSS developers. Now they are. The GPL may not be seen as > business friendly, but it does work.
What is Apple contribtuing back to the free bsds? apple seems to stick their strange mpl-like license on all their 'open-source' code, so it's rather useless to the BSDs. The whole Apple opensource story sounds more like a big marketing gag to me.