[GNUz] O/S compare

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:47:07 +1300
Richard Tindall <ask@infohelp.co.nz> wrote:

> If Apple ever start selling OSX, then that would create a non-free BSD, 
> as I see it so far...
> (CD sets are sold for reproduction cost only, for *BSD, historically.)


Rik, try and think of the individual elements of what is being sold or
distributed.

AFAIK the OS/X core or kernel is based on BSD and is open source.
However OS/X is more than the kernel and most of the operating system
is proprietary, or at least the bits that make it different to other
OSes.

And I believe Apple do sell OS/X, or at least I've never heard of it
being gratis!