The FREE & OPEN SOURCE Mac OS...

UNIX is unanimously recognized as the best operating system. Today, all UNIX are free and open source, with the exception of Mac OS... Sun Microsystems is the latest must to have produced free and open source OS, what allows thousands of developers to analyze every line of code and to correct the faults. We obtain in this way an almost "perfect" OS... This method of development proved its superiority with Linux. The Linux kernel contains 5 times fewer errors than all other UNIX... The open source of Mac OS as well as the free distribution would give an ENORMOUS ADVANTAGE onto all others UNIX... Mac OS is compatible with of numerous commercial softs, what is not still the case for Solaris, BSD, Linux, etc... Every administrator as well as the end users will install Mac OS on their computer to take advantage of the UNIX power, and the software compatibility... We obtain the PERFECT platform...! I think that Mac OS can become the BEST OS in the world, so only Apple not keep in the confidentiality their baby... Do not forget that you are the LAST ones not to have opened TOTALLY your OS...!
Other OS

> UNIX is unanimously recognized as the best operating system
Widely, but not unanimously.
As for the rest of your argument...
Mac OS X is built on top of Darwin. Darwin is Apple's UNIX bed and that is already open source. You can download and build your own Darwin environment as you like:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
Apple also open source many of the elements of Mac OS X - theunderlying technologies such as Bonjour, Open Directory and more:
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html
What they don't open source is the UI layer - Aqua and its associated parts, but that's a whole different issue, and maybe the reason to own a Mac. If you could download Mac OS X (including the UI) and build your own copy on your commodity hardware then you could say goodbye to Apple's hardware business. People are prepared to pay extra for Apple's superior industrial design, but there are limits.
It's arguable that Apple's hardware is an intrinsic part of the Mac experience. If you take that away then what incentive is there to use a Mac?

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Adobe is only giving up the free tool for education purposes, or unemployed developer. You didn't say if you were one of those.
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Is mysql a free open source database or do you need a license for it in prd

is mysql a free open source database or do you need a license for it in production.

Hi,
It should be free under GPL (General Public license).Usually it will comes with your operating system distribution (eg:RHEL)
If you download it from Oracle site, it should have the commercial license tied to it, and you need to pay for that if it is in use for production.
http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/index.html
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best regards
nomnganga
[email protected]

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SolarMetric Inc. http://www.solarmetric.com
Kodo Java Data Objects Full featured JDO: eliminate the SQL from your code--
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[svn] 2891: Add the web-tier compiler for J2EE to the Flex open source code base.

Revision: 2891
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-08-19 07:35:22 -0700 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008)
Log Message:
Add the web-tier compiler for J2EE to the Flex open source code base.
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flex/sdk/trunk/modules/webtier/bootstrap/java/src/default.properties
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flex/sdk/trunk/modules/webtier/bootstrap/java/src/flex/bootstrap/BootstrapBodyTag.java
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