Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder2.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: open-and-closed case Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:17:38 +1300 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <2e4225be-286d-4763-830f-3aa705bd0f98@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Y7SHN4FUqJYIGVRovBjz7gPkhTS/CVBn+dKrwWGxcbaaSYYLcv Cancel-Lock: sha1:5LJnxLfbHJ9c9pxzmi9Ld4fY6wM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:3199 David LaRue wrote: > bob wrote in > news:2e4225be-286d-4763-830f-3aa705bd0f98@googlegroups.com: > >> Can someone help me understand how Apple has so much closed source >> stuff when their systems are based on Unix? >> >> How can it go from open to closed like that? >> >> Thanks. > > Hello Bob, > > First of all as far as I know some Apple stuff is hosted on linux, not > Unix. No, OSX is BSD based, which is definitely UNIX. -- Ian Collins