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Re:Apple claims Snow Leopard will be a "breakthrough" in par... by wmf on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @08:20PM (#214461)
Switching to the FreeBSD kernel seems like it would have been a good idea back in the Rhapsody days, but Tevanian probably wouldn't allow it. By now Apple has added so many OS X-specific features like IOKit and DRM that it would be a lot of work to switch. Costs a fortune to maintain, costs a fortune to switch.
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