@Rad, am now switching off sidewinders and giving it a complete rest. One issue goes back to my FreeBSD days and networking. I still have a cutting of some bright person who did a simple analysis many years ago when they lied about performance of G5 machines ( 2003 ). I list something similar below and you can only understand it if you ever did BSD. I have nothing against Apple, enjoy using the prompt interface occasionally which is like working from freebsd and may even buy one in future because of it being a BSD powered device. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stripping down Apple’s products and history may tell us a bit about the magic; innovation and revolution. Most of Apple’s software is based on Free Software developed at universities by taxpayers money. The core Apple software – Mac OS– comes from BSD. It is developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California, Berkeley. Darvin is the base of Mac OS X which is built on top of XNU kernel. XNU Kernel is combination of Mach, BSD and other free software. Mach, the micro kernel, was not developed by Apple; it was another university project started at Carnegie Mellon University. The security which Apple boasts of: that Apple is free of viruses; has not been created by Apple. It is the feature of these democratic Unix-like systems which Apple picked up for free and converted into expensive systems. Apple used BSD because the licensing allows anyone to take the code without giving anything in return. Apple rarely pays back. Despite being one of the most free licenses, the problem with the BSD license is that it doesn’t force the user to contribute back to the original coder. Apple not only closes the code of most of its products, but also uses very restrictive terms for users and developers. The same OS which was created by using community developed project does not allow you to install it on non-Apple hardware. According to Apple’s EULA (end users license agreement) it is illegal. Nice business model. Borrow as much as you can from university projects; student’s toil and taxpayer’s money. But don’t give anything back. Use it to create an airtight compartment where every right to your customers and developers is refused. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
@Aki, chief -- did Steve Jobs shoot your puppy or something?