[Uri’el-2012]

Apple has a history of lifting technology from other's efforts, witness the mouse and GUI interface that Apple borrowed from Xerox PARC, OSX borrrows(sic) heavily from Unix.

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1 posted on 01/19/2007 12:06:10 PM MST by TC Rider

Everything from PARC was negotiated between Apple and PARC.

You are repeating urban myths.

OS X is BSD *nix.

BSD is the most secure *nix based on the DARPA contract for internet security.

[Incorrigible]

Everything from PARC was negotiated between Apple and PARC.

Not so. Xerox later sued Apple but by then it was too little too late.

[TC Rider]

You are repeating urban myths.

Yet there is no listing on Snopes for these 'urban myths'.

I never said the Steves, though both have committed felonies, or that Apple 'stole' the technology, just that some of their most touted accomplishments were the work of others.

They have another bad habit of picking names for products that are already in existence, witness the big payoff to McIntosh labs back in the early 80s, and the ongoing tussles with the Apple music label.

[magellan]

"OS X is BSD *nix."

Actually, not only is OS X BSD-based, but it is based on the old NeXTSTEP OS from the NeXT computer, which was a BSD derivative built on top of the Mach microkernel.

"BSD is the most secure *nix based on the DARPA contract for internet security."

I don't know if this is accurate. If you are referring to DARPA's Composable High Assurance Trusted Systems project, that was canceled back in 2003:

DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says