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also as another commenter said, apple had a donation matching program so could possibly have been some employee donated $20 and apple matched it
~~also also, osx is based on openbsd; not freebsd so id expect them to donate maybe to kernel development and the actual distro itโs based on rather than a random other one~~
This is the first time I've heard this, and I couldn't find any sources for it. Everything I've ever read indicated they based off of Mach and FreeBSD. I'd love to see sources to the contrary.
ah youโre totally right! idk where i got that from: iโve thought openbsd for yeeeeeears
It's cool. I don't know why more people don't use the BSDs as a basis for a project. Depending on what you're doing just starting with a UNIX like OS means there's time to pivot if you're not writing drivers for specific hardware. I'll never understand why people use Windows for that kind of thing.
The BSD's are easy to get mixed up tbh
Yeah, it's taken from FreeBSD.
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
Any OpenBSD references are related to things like documentation and the "pf" firewall, which FreeBSD imported from OpenBSD to begin with.