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On 2 Mar, 2011, at 8:56 am, Vivi Griffin wrote:
there is quite a bit of open source software available for macs so
To expand on that, almost all major popular FLOSS is available via the MacPorts and Fink package managers, which are built around good old dpkg. Stuff that linuxers think of as standards are built-in -- darwin is a BSD derivative and ships with Apache, OpenSSH, bash, emacs, and screen, among many others. Darwin itself is FLOSS, and so is the Mach microkernel; the Quartz, Aqua and Cocoa layers above it are proprietary.
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