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Let's see, Apple had a closed operating system before they went to unix with OSX, and we know where OS9 was headed. It's only when they co-opted unix that they
by euroclydon 17y ago
Let's see, Apple had a closed operating system before they went to unix with OSX, and we know where OS9 was headed. It's only when they co-opted unix that they achieved such great success with Mac market share.
- bad_user 17y agoAre you saying that OSX is more open than OS9? :)
- euroclydon 17y agoI'm not sure "open" is the idea I'm going for here, rather OSX exposes a larger existing ecosystem of tools, libraries, applications, all of which are open source. Now the topic of the original article was about a closed environment versus an open one, and it certainly seems to me that since OSX is unix, that it's part of a larger, open environment, and I think that's why their desktop market share has increased since OS9 and below.