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quiesce on Sept 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: SteamOS

> Apple took FreeBSD and makes it into OSX.

No, they took NeXTSTEP and made it into OS X. However much they may now have in common, the history of the codebase goes back years prior to the existence of FreeBSD.

GalacticDomin8r on Sept 24, 2013 [–]

Let's try again with facts:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2008-Aug...

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