Steve Jobs: an open source pioneer? You bet

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Summary: Steve Jobs: an early open source pioneer? You bet. Mac OSX is based on Darwin, an open source OS made available by Apple in 2000 that incorporated code from NextStep, BSD and other free software projects, Wikipedia notes. Darwin still lives on in the form of PureDarwin and other derivatives.

One wouldn’t think of Apple’s Steve Jobs as an open source pioneer.

But he was.

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