David Kelly writes:
> Yes, basically. FreeBSD is free for the taking, so Apple
> took. Steve Jobs' NeXT team had a lot of familiarity with Mach,
> so they took from there also too. A good number of well known
> FreeBSD people now work for Apple, there are a number of FreeBSD
> device drivers shipping with MacOS X.
In the interest of perspective, it's worth noting this has not
be a one-sided arrangement. Apple has contributed substantial
debugging info and even blocks of code - often for the kind of
boring/unglamorous stuff which doesn't get a lot of attention in
mostly volunteer project.
Robert Huff
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