From: Jack Norton <jack@0x6a.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fun quote
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:30:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB255FA.3040902@0x6a.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d344f4a027087d71dcf2b4c5d63aaacc@quanstro.net>
erik quanstrom wrote:
>> Now, Plan 9's kernel is pretty old too, isn't it?
>>
>
> that's the point. age is a red herring.
>
>
>> What has saved other 'popular' kernels from this? For instance, no body
>> ever complains about FreeBSD being a complex cluster, but it has
>> pretty wide adoption (even as a 'desktop'). What about OS X? Has
>> Apple's arrogance and secrecy saved it from.... open source
>> development? It seems like they release code only after they are damn
>> sure they've gotten all they can out of it.
>>
>
> so you're saying that osx is not complicated?
>
> - erik
>
>
No, no, it is, what I mean is that I haven't heard similar sentiments
towards the open source released by Apple. Apple's 'open source' is
software that is developed in a closed source fashion, then released as
open source when the time is right, as opposed to Linux and related
software, which are developed, almost from the ground up, as open
source. This is the impression I get anyway.
-Jack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 12:14 erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 12:34 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-17 12:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 15:30 ` Jack Norton [this message]
2009-09-17 16:00 ` james toy
2009-09-17 16:05 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-17 16:02 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-17 16:27 ` matt
2009-09-17 16:45 ` erik quanstrom
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