Optimal license for Java projects ...

[Rick Moen]

Quoting David Johnson (david at usermode.org):

> IIRC correctly, the only proprietary fork of BSD after it became 
> unencumbered was NeXT. It would be interesting to hear from Steve Jobs 
> why he made NeXT closed but Darwin open. I suspect it was due to the 
> pressure of trying to keep a closed fork in sync with a moving open 
> target.

Yes, I think he made the reasonable judgement that maintaining a
separate fork behind closed doors was no longer remotely justifiable,
economically.  And Darwin, indeed, proved upon public release to be in a
very sorry state, compared to FreeBSD.  The Darwin community plus
ex-Wind River people hired on by Apple have been very busy bring it back
up to date.

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