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Workingmac.com Interview With Jordan Hubbard

Posted by timothy on from the short-and-sweetish dept.

LiquidPC writes: "workingmac.com has an interview with Jordan Hubbard (one of the founders of the FreeBSD project, and currently works for Apple on development of OS X). Questions range from 'How do open-source operating systems compare to closed-source operating systems?' to 'What does the future hold for FreeBSD?'" It's a quick interview, but a good read. Interesting that to talk about the Mac OS now is to talk about UNIX.

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  1. Because he's being paid to WORK ON FREEBSD also... by keepper · · Score: 5, Informative

    Damn, you would figure you guys would read a bit more before you post ( but heck, this IS slashdot ).

    Part of his duties, besides being involved in dariwn, are to keep working on FreeBSD.

    Why you ask?

    Because apple is source syncing many parts of Darwin with FreeBSD and there's soon to be a move to start syncing it with the 4.x branch.

    Besides, that was the numero uno premise jkh had before he went to work at apple. According to his emails to the freebsd mailing lists, we wanted to assure everyone that his role in freebsd would not be compromised by his work at apple. If anything, freebsd is gonna get more benefits out ot it.

    PowerPC port anyone?

    "FreeBSD... because a pc is a terrible thing to waste."