Related link: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5715

Doc Searls, in his MacWorld writeup for Linux Journal, sheds some light on the quiet yet growing UNIX geek support of Apple’s OS X. “The constituencies have begun to overlap. The foundation under Apple’s OS X is BSD. Politics and rivalries aside, this attracts a lot of Linux weenies, not to mention UNIX heavies of varied provenance.”

“One guy told me he thought OS X was “subversive” because it “seeds” millions of otherwise unsuspecting households with open-source UNIX.”