On 11/16/11, ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that a number of key FreeBSD committers are Mac OS X developers simply because Apple hired them due to their operating systems' close ancestry. One of the guys is John Hubbard. Check this out [ http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/FreeBSD_Delay_Mac_OS_X_TMO_Speaks_Wit... ]
Did you notice that the news link is more than 10 years old ? _______________________________________________
I had not noticed that but I doubt it changes anything. In any case, you are missing the point. OS X looks a lot like *BSD because of their common origins and the fact that they are developed by a fair share of coders in common. So the idea of it being a rip-off of OSS might be a slight exaggeration.