[nycbug-talk] Good Citizen?

[G. Rosamond]

On Nov 7, 2004, at 8:26 PM, Pastor Mac wrote:

> Hello all--
>
> I'm thinking of writing a piece for a buddy of mine that runs a 
> Mac-centric website (for the morbidly curious see <www.lowendmac.com>) 
> about the new 5.3 release.  Specifically, I'd like to get some 
> perspective on how much cross pollination is ongoing between the BSD 
> community and Darwin development.  I don't want to trigger a flame 
> fest but I'm interested in hearing if Apple is simply sucking up other 
> people's work or if Apple's developers are truly opening up and 
> participating in the open source community.
>
> As a side note, I'm not a coder although I'm loosely conversant in the 
> languages.  So I ask that you please be kind to this humble supplicant 
> in analysis of your chosen field of expertise:-)
>

Woah. . .there's a lot on this. . .I'd recommend perusing the archives 
of places like OSnews and OSviews . . .not so much for the articles, 
which are normally pretty bad, but rather for some of the insightful 
comments.

I think we all remember this one:

http://osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=938

I'd also be curious to hear what others have to say about the matter. . 
.

g