> Prolly because FreeBSD is _better_ than linux. Awww man... I'm going to end this right here.... Hitler! http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/ > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Mike Hicks wrote: > > > "David Blevins" <dmblevins at mediaone.net> wrote: > > > > > > I've been hearing a lot about FreeBSD since Apple > integrated it into > > > the Mac OS X. An integration like this doesn't happen > over night, I > > > imagine that Apple has been funding the project for quite > some time. > > > With Apple's focus on usability, it's no wonder FreeBSD's > > > user-friendliness is a bit of an anomaly. > > > > > > The first thing I think is "Why FreeBSD and not Linux?" > > > > Why did Apple pick FreeBSD instead of Linux? Probably > because of the > > different licenses. Apple made some extensions to the > kernel to get > > it to work on Apple machines. I guess they ended up releasing the > > source in the end (they call the low-level system Darwin), but they > > could have kept the whole thing proprietary. > > > > Legend has it that one of Steve Jobs's other companies, NeXT, made > > some extensions to the gcc compiler for the Objective-C > language that > > they wanted to keep as proprietary. They were confronted > and released > > their changes, but I'm sure it left a nasty taste in Jobs's mouth. > > > > I'm not sure if the story is true, but it would explain why Apple > > seems to stay away from Linux and GPLed software. In fact, > Apple used > > to support work on Linux for the Mac (mkLinux, I think, though the > > `mk' was for `micro-kernel'), but that quietly went away when Jobs > > returned to be iCEO. > > > > Anyway, I'm just bitter that Apple won't let me play Sorenson > > QuickTime movies on my Linux box :-p > > > > -- > > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I came, I saw, > I hid in the > > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ basement. > > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | > mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu > > ] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >