
Robert Watson is a member of the
FreeBSD Project's core and security-officer teams, and founder of the
TrustedBSD Project. For his day job, he is a Research Scientist in the network security research group at NAI Labs, studying operating and network security issues. His primary contributions on the FreeBSD Project come in the form of security enhancements to the system; the TrustedBSD feature set arriving in FreeBSD 5.0 will include file system access control lists, mandatory access control, and support for fine-grained privileges. DARPA is now funding a FreeBSD security research and development project at NAI Labs, and they also sub-contract to a number of independent developers in the FreeBSD community to complete that work. Read more for our exclusive interview with Robert.
Why is it that Apple was able to take Free BSD and create one of the most talked about operating systems in both the Mac community as well as the PC community. But companies like KDE, Gnome, or Free BSD itself, haven't been able to even come close. Does Apple have better designers and developers than what the open source community has to offer.