Re: [Fsfe-uk] Mac OS X refund

[Neil Darlow]

Hi,

Dave Crossland wrote:
> Doing some more research into Darwin, I found these two pages that may
> be of interest:
>
> http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/writing/osfail.html
> http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/writing/gettingos.txt

Which doesn't paint a rosy picture for the future of CUPS under Apple's 
ownership. A pity for CUPS now being de-facto for many distributions.

The same fate could await MySQL under its new owner, Sun Microsystems, 
despite their contributions to free/open source software. In that event 
we have a saviour on PostgreSQL, at least.

I applaud commercial contributions to free software but I can't help 
thinking that the acquisition of existing projects by commerce results 
in long-term damage to them - my opinion only.

Regards,
Neil Darlow