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Re: [News] Darwin/BSD on the iPhone Demonstrates Power of UNIX/POSIX in Devices

  • Subject: Re: [News] Darwin/BSD on the iPhone Demonstrates Power of UNIX/POSIX in Devices
  • From: Rick <none@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:42:38 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
  • References: <14093233.qjP1EuXQjP@schestowitz.com>
  • User-agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table)
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:478887
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:31:20 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> (Linux perspective:) Apple embeds Mac OS X in phone, set-top box
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | ...Unix-based operating systems have not proven as popular or as
> | successful as Linux for embedded applications, because BSD's licensing
> | places no obligation on users to contribute their improvements back to
> | the community. Thus, if Apple plans to use Mac OS X in a range of
> | embedded devices, it will have to do all of its own development work.
> `----
> 
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7732079254.html

I wonder how much Apple had to hack at 'Darwin' and the proprietary layers
of OS X ...

-- 
Rick


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