Open Software in a Commercial Operating System
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Description: A paper written by Wilfredo Sánchez, the then Open Source Engineering Lead at Apple, about the use of open source in commercial software such as Mac OS X Server.
(June 10, 1999)
1999 FREENIX Track Presentation Open Software in a Commercial Operating System Apple Computer has been working for the past couple of years to build a new and modern operating system to advance the Macintosh platform. The Macintosh platform, developed at Apple, while strong in many areas (in particular human interface), lacks the solid and modern foundation best exemplified in current variants of the Unix operating system. Apple acquired NeXT Software, Inc. in early 1997 largely in order to gain NeXT's experience in making an operating system based on a modern foundation which also had made advances in user interfaces, programming models, enterprise software, and other areas in which Apple was not traditionally strong. Thus began the development of Mac OS X Server, Apple's server operating system offering, which is also the basis for parts of Mac OS X, which we will be rolling out later in 1999.
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