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Re:The Road to Luna by acqq on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:17PM (#6234273)
If you ever looked at Darwin and compared it with any other kernel, you'd know it's a serious, big real OS work, far from any "UI" you mention.

Reading what you wrote, however, I don't believe you did something like that, or even that you'd be able to. I see there's no point arguing in such case.

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Re:The Road to Luna by SkyMarshal on Sunday August 18, 2013 @07:41PM (#6234762)
That's how OS X is now, after ~10 years of closed development. When it first started it was open source FreeBSD and Mach. I even remember the FOSS community's disappointment when Apple close sourced the project.

Who knows how eOS will look in ten years, and the state of OS X now is certainly no basis for criticism of brand new OS.

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Re:The Road to Luna by kunai on Sunday August 18, 2013 @06:56PM (#6234638)
Darwin was created using portions of FreeBSD's kernel and the work done for Mach at Carnegie Mellon. It's not Apple's sole creation in the slightest.
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