future of quail

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Uwe Brauer writes:

 > BSD allows its code to be "stolen" by a commercial product
 > (Mac X comes into my mind), while GPL does not allow you
 > this.

Great example -- but *for* BSD, the way BSD is supposed to work.
Darwin, the part of Mac OS X that's based on Mach (the kernel) and
FreeBSD (drivers and userland) is *free software*, at least the parts
I've hacked on are.

It's the GUI that is proprietary, but AFAIK the GUI doesn't have free
software in it.  Except for Xquartz, which again is free software.

That doesn't mean Steve Jobs wouldn't take it all proprietary if he
thought he could make a few pennies that way, but it isn't a bad deal
at the price (USD 0.00) right now.