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Windows Vista is not a rip off of Mac OS X

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Guest Jordan

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Its common fact that most of Mac OSX is stolen from Linux code...

 

The guys at Apple couldn't script themselves out a paper bag.

 

EDIT: Lol, that guy is taking the piss.

Jackster Newbie

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Its common fact that most of Mac OSX is stolen from Linux code...

 

The guys at Apple couldn't script themselves out a paper bag.

 

It's not 'stolen' and it's not Linux. Apple used FreeBSD cose in their Darwin kernel, but unlike Microsoft who never give anything back, Apple contributes improvements they make to Open Source software that they use (FreeBSD and KHTML spring to mind) back to the original project.

 

For example, Konqueror (the web browser used in KDE, based on KHTML) can now display the ACID 2 W3C Compliancy test fine because of changes Apple made to Safari and contributed back to them.

Charlie Newbie

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It's not 'stolen' and it's not Linux. Apple used FreeBSD cose in their Darwin kernel, but unlike Microsoft who never give anything back, Apple contributes improvements they make to Open Source software that they use (FreeBSD and KHTML spring to mind) back to the original project.

 

For example, Konqueror (the web browser used in KDE, based on KHTML) can now display the ACID 2 W3C Compliancy test fine because of changes Apple made to Safari and contributed back to them.

 

Ever heard of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

Guest Jordan

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It's not 'stolen' and it's not Linux. Apple used FreeBSD cose in their Darwin kernel, but unlike Microsoft who never give anything back, Apple contributes improvements they make to Open Source software that they use (FreeBSD and KHTML spring to mind) back to the original project.

 

For example, Konqueror (the web browser used in KDE, based on KHTML) can now display the ACID 2 W3C Compliancy test fine because of changes Apple made to Safari and contributed back to them.

 

Aren't MS working with the Firefox guys and also starting to support Open Source?

 

And why exactly did Apple have to go and licence a kernel? Why not just make their own? Hmm?

Twozzok Newbie

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Also, i'm pretty sure that BSD is a *nix system.

 

So it is kinda Linux but not really at all, if that makes sense.

 

EDIT: Yep it is a nix system, but yeah, what Jordan said.

Jackster Newbie

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Ever heard of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

 

Yeah, and I agree it's a very good cause and I hope it will change the world for the better, but it's not software developers they're giving to is it?

 

Aren't MS working with the Firefox guys and also starting to support Open Source?

 

And why exactly did Apple have to go and licence a kernel? Why not just make their own? Hmm?

 

I've heard MS have been working with the Firefox guys, but the only thing I've heard to actually come out of it is that MS agreed to use Firefox's RSS logo.

 

As for the kernel, it's a kernel which has been tried and tested for years and already has lots of tools available for it, including some great software development tools and system admin tools. It helps Apple in that they don't have to spend millions on creating a brand new kernel

from scratch and instead they get an already excellent kernel, and it helps FreeBSD because it will increase the amount of support for it, especially now that Apple uses x86 CPUs, the Terminal and X11 based software should be pretty compatible between the two.

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