Turning a former commercial product into open source and then making money from it because you did so is like winning the jackpot in a lottery. People are cheap and they don't pay if it is for free. It is as simple as that. I experienced it personally. Well, I didn't make it open source but freewar...

Oops! Sorry for my mistake. I didn't do any homework to be honest. Like I said... I know nothing about open source. I know less about free BSD. All I know is a few things I read about it back when OSX came out. There was a bit of a stink from some purists as I recall. Uh... still... Apple is not an...

I know where Mac OSX came from. Apple was required to release portions of the source code since it is DERIVED from open source... part of the "ULA". Just a quick tidbit, the BSD license is closeable, its the GNU GPL that isnt. OS X is BSD, they could close it at any point they wish. :) Cr...

I bought Tiger recently... not free... not open source. -vern *sigh*... Apple is based on the Mach microkernel from BSD licensing and many ported features built upon it from teh FreeBSD project. The source code can be obtained freely here. http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ Only thing no...

Apple and Microsoft were never open source. Google makes money from advertising. None of them are even remotely examples of open source. Unless you consider that Bill Gates made some of his money STEALING from open source. -vern Google everyday supports open source project with money, Havent you he...

Open Source can make money for software developers, it really can.. In some cases giving away your product to the world, can be the smartest and largest money making thing you have ever done. Reason being, is because Open Source solutions, when there are no others (which are nearly as good anyhow). ...