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To: Golden Eagle
Apple, which of course, is based on BSD. Its as attractive as Linux can get when developed and market by a major company.

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53 posted on 05/28/2008 9:54:54 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Apple, which of course, is based on BSD. Its as attractive as Linux can get when developed and market by a major company.

BSD is real Unix, Linux is a foreign clone that's been picked up in the US by IBM, which despite being a much bigger computer company hasn't had the same level of success. Mainly because the license is different, which allows Apple to keep parts of the O/S private, so their competitors can't use them in other products. Conversely anything that goes into Linux can instantly be used by competitors, hence the best features almost always get put into Linux last.

56 posted on 05/28/2008 10:29:05 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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