Re: GPL and Economics (was Re: GPL vs. sweatshops (was Re: Bias))

At 03:58 PM 6/13/02 -0400, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Francois Gouget wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Brett Glass wrote:
> > [...]
> > > >Sure you may say that there is a mitigating factor in that one can build
> > > >proprietary product on top of one of the above, but as I have shown
> > > >before this can only be temporary, unless you manage to kill the
> > > >community around your open-source competitor.
> > >
> > > Not true. Apple shows no sign of dying.
> >
> > And they have a long history of realeasing products built on
> > top of a BSD OS. Whooops, wait, not this is pretty recent.
>
>Recent or not, OS X has been pretty successful, and it didn't require
>killing the BSD community to achieve success.

HAHAHAHA, I think this is a joke. The point is AFAIK OS X has two parts:
1. FreeBSD
2. Proprietary GUI

They took the FreeBSD but put a proprietary GUI on top of it.