The real big news coming out of Apple's annual January box & promise rollout at Macworld wasn't the four new desktops or the sleek new post-Vaio titanium (yes, the real metal, right off the periodic table) laptop. It wasn't even the "hard" release date for its new BSD-based operating system OS X (pronounced "OS-Ten"). It was the revised license for OS X. (Need deatils from Larry Rosen, et. al.)
Now look at what Apple's productizing of BSD does to the top level directory in the Darwin operating system (OS X without everything above the UNIX foundation):
[machfour:/] dsearls% ls -l
drwxrwxr-x 24 root admin 772 Dec 22 13:11 Applications
drwxrwxrwx 8 root wheel 264 Dec 12 17:37 Desktop Folder
drwxrwxr-x 11 root admin 330 Dec 22 13:44 Library
drwxrwxrwx 15 root wheel 466 Dec 12 17:50 Mac OS 9
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 264 Dec 16 10:35 Network
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 264 Sep 2 21:08 System
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 264 Jan 2 01:42 TheFindByContentFolder
drwxrwxrwx 4 root wheel 264 Dec 11 14:50 TheVolumeSettingsFolder
drwxrwxrwx 53 root wheel 1758 Dec 11 14:52 Trash
drwxrwxr-x 6 root admin 160 Dec 16 10:34 Users
drwxr-xr-x 33 root wheel 1078 Sep 2 21:18 bin
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 18 14:28 dev
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 194 Jan 18 14:30 private
drwxr-xr-x 52 root wheel 1724 Sep 2 20:47 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 330 Dec 12 17:49 usr
It's not bad, but it's not vernacular, either. You can't cd to /etc or even /usr. (We'll have a complete review of OS X in an upcoming issue.)