[talk] Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop?

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Fri Nov 21 17:07:21 EST 2014


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 01:55:28PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/21/14 11:17, Scott Robbins wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:49:31AM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>On 11/20/14 17:13, George Rosamond wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>1) osx peeps who are using unix w/o really knowing it
> >
> >This group isn't relevant to us...wow, that sounds elitist, but the point
> >is, Yeah, OSX got itself Unix certified and these people use it, but it has
> >little or nothing to do with the BSDs' acceptance or lack of it.
> >
> 
> you sure?  having a company like apple develop against a unix'y
> system is pretty helpful.  for example the list of software here is
> all being used by/patched by apple:
> https://www.apple.com/opensource/

Good point, that I overlooked.  

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