Re: The Linux Hole - Mac OX

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A variety of reasons.

Biggest is licensing.  He can't "port" mac os X to linux because of GPL
isues.  It would be very hard to keep locked up the code they wanted to by
ruinnign on Linux.

Plus, with NextStep, they all ready had BSD licensed.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Draper" <jdraper@trilosoft.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: The Linux Hole - Mac OX


> Why, why, why doesn't Steve Jobs port MacOX to Linux and run M$ out of
town.
> After all it already runs on the BSD flavor of Unix.  Sure he would lose
out
> on some hardware biz but at least we would have a choice....one I would
take
> instantly.  I hope I have already bought my last M$ piece of crapware.
>
> Jerry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:38 PM
> Subject: Re: The Linux Hole
>
>
> >
> > There was one person who was running it on Mac OS X.  Under Darwin, I
> > believe...
> >
> > Since it works on all the Unixes, it's easy enough to compile the
source.
> > The difficult part is the keyboard mapping.  Apparently you have to
> > manually install the Linux terminfo settings under OS X, but it works...
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Mark Phippard wrote:
> >
> > > Scott,
> > >
> > > Do you know if they have done anything to port this to Mac OS X?
> > >
> > > Perhaps they should make it available under the Fink project.
> > > http://fink.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > Mark
>
>
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