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Open-Source Darwin Now Available to Download for Apple MacOS Sierra

Mark Coppock | Yahoo Tech | November 25, 2016

Although it may seem strange, Apple’s MacOS is at heart an open-source system. Apple is one of the most profitable companies in the world and yet the core components of the operating system driving its Mac line is made up of freely available software. Called Darwin, these open-source components include major parts of the MacOS kernel, portions of Linux BSD, and various drivers. As such, Apple has always made these open-source software bits available for download ever since OS X 10.0 was released, and now the company has made MacOS 10.12 Sierra’s Darwin available as well, according to 9to5Mac...

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Steve Jobs: An Open Source Pioneer? You Bet

Paula Rooney | ZD Net | October 6, 2011

One wouldn’t think of Apple’s Steve Jobs as an open source pioneer. But he was. Apple’s 10-year-old Mac OS X is a closed source operating system with open source components.It is based in part on Darwin, an open source OS originally developed by Apple in 2000 which incorporates code from Jobs’ NextStep, BSD and other free software, according to Wikipedia.  The BSD code in MacOSX, Read More »