Re: New York Times: How Susceptible Is Your Operating System to Viruses?

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From: Aron Roberts (aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 14:43:54 PDT

At 01:57 PM 9/19/2003 -0700, Tom Holub wrote:
>And for that matter, Mac OS X is not open-source.

At 14:27 -0700 2003-09-19, John Ives wrote:
>I'm well aware of that, but much of it is based upon open source,
>and those are the same pieces that interest me the most (SAMBA, SSH
>access, etc).

   John is correct. As a factual clarification, Darwin, the core of
Mac OS X, is fully open source, whatever the associated security
implications may be. :-)

   http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ps-faq.html

   The following Apple Web page identifies the major components in the
Darwin core:

   http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/darwin.html

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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