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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a sign of the apocalypse

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a sign of the apocalypse
  • From: Bart Trojanowski <bart [ at ] jukie [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:45:50 +0000
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 15:40, Paul B <red [ dot ] line [ at ] rogers [ dot ] com> wrote:
> Cute. I like the quote, but isn't Android as open source as OSx (I've heard it said over and over that Apple somehow got away with closing their BSD fork)?

BSD license does not prevent closing of a fork.  This is why we like
the GPL. :-)

And while the Android platform is open, and OSX is not... I do agree
that "running on Android" is not "running on Linux"

-Bart