Scott Klement wrote:
> Yet, we have a plethora of successful open source operating systems. 
> Linux, of course, and open source BSD dervatives (MacOS X, FreeBSD, 
> NetBSD, OpenBSD) are wildly popular and successful.

Just to clarify ... Mac OS X is not open source ... OS X includes a
variant of Free BSD (named darwin) along with the legendary GUI and
other support programs that are closed source and licensed.

david


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