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I wonder if history will repeat itself, will Valve be the next Apple?

Apple took FreeBSD and makes it into OSX. > Valve takes Linux and makes it into SteamOS.

Apple makes iTunes for music, unifying digital music download > Valve makes Steam for games, unifying digital game download

Apple make IPOD for digital music playing > Valve make (SteamBox?) for game playing

Damn I wish I could own some Valve stock...



The differences in licensing between the BSD license and GPL are designed to prevent them from doing all of what Apple did with FreeBSD.


> what Apple did with FreeBSD

Please tell us what Apple did with FreeBSD.


> 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.





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