Re: That nice Sony company

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:39:10 -0500, in sci.electronics.design John
Perry <jp@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>martin griffith wrote:
>>
>> AFAIU OSX is just a butchered version of Linux(whatever), and there
>> are so many gurus out there, the DRM stuff will be cracked and
>> disabled very quickly
>>
>
>No, it's BSD unix. Linux is GPL: they can't hide their modifications.
>BSD has a different license that lets vendors do pretty much what they
>want with the software, in particular, hide their own code mods.
>
>Now, as to cracking Apple's possible malware, which system would be
>easier to do :-)?
>
>John Perry
Sorry, I dont really know enough about the *nix world, appart from
trying Ununtu and knoppix




martin
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