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OSX has always been based primarily on BSD-licensed open source. Obviously they don't want their deep pockets to attract lawsuits. The lesson here should be obvious, make the GPL too onerous and fewer companies will risk using it. The FSF suing Cisco was an example that Apple took seriously.


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