[OT] Apple's contribution to OSX

[Andrew Sinclair]

> Robert Storey <y2kbug at ms25.hinet.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> First off, apologies for this off-topic post, but I think this is the
> only place I'm likely to get an intelligent (and well-informed) answer
> to my question. I tried searching the web, but found a confusing and
> contradictory bunch of poorly-informed opinions, which wasn't helpful.
> 
> I'm writing a news article about Apple's contribution to open source. 
> In
> particular, I'm interested in finding out the following:
> 
> 1) How much of FreeBSD did Apple actually use in OSX? If I'm not
> mistaken, the Darwin kernel is not related to FreeBSD in any way (or is
> that wrong?). Basically, what exactly did Apple gain from FreeBSD?
> 
This is the 2nd time this question has been asked on the lists. I'll be sending an E-
Mail to Apple Computers tomorrow.
    As for the other two questions:
2) A FreeBSD core team member should be able to answer this.
3) Only Darwin is open source. Mac OS X is basically proprietary extensions to 
Darwin and is thus closed source. This includes the GUI and its libraries.

        - Regards
            Andrew Sinclair