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> shipping the less-featureful BSD userland rather than the GNU userland, or shipping an old & outdated bash. You think that's an intentional choice Apple made
by jsjohnst 9y ago
> shipping the less-featureful BSD userland rather than the GNU userland, or shipping an old & outdated bash.
You think that's an intentional choice Apple made? If you spent even a moment looking into it you'd realize the GNU user land has a license that purposely roadblocks companies like Apple from using it.
I'm not saying Apple or GNU is to blame, they have different philosophies with their own benefits and drawbacks, but to pretend it's only one side's fault is a bit naive.
- zeveb 9y ago> You think that's an intentional choice Apple made? Yes, because they do ship some GPL software (and provide the source code for it); they choose not to ship more, and they choose not to give their customers the source code to the software they purchase. I don't know if Apple could make money selling hardware with open source software, but I do believe that morally it should.
- jsjohnst 9y agoThey used to ship quite a bit of GPL software, but have been progressively removing as much of it as they can as fast as they can. There's very little GPL left in macOS and I bet they would kill it immediately if it was practical.