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I could really use a "special edition" of MacOS - sort of like what happened with XP in the later days. Strip out all the Apple stuff, privacy failures, and exc
by mmastrac 6y ago
I could really use a "special edition" of MacOS - sort of like what happened with XP in the later days. Strip out all the Apple stuff, privacy failures, and excessive gatekeeping [$] and just leave the raw OS.
[$] for me
- systemvoltage 6y agoUNIX was a proprietary OS but literally everyone used it in the 80’s - without a license. Campuses to labs around the US. We need to nuke the Apple bullshit from MacOS Catalina and convert it into people’s operating system. Ethics be damned.
- pram 6y agoIf only there were freely available, open source UNIX clones in the 21st century. Oh well!
- systemvoltage 6y agoThose clones have issues with multiple monitor setups and can’t run Photoshop.
- spijdar 6y agoWhat UNIX are you thinking of? Even the Berkeley distribution appeared to require a license from AT&T to use, for V7 UNIX. Anything with AT&T's code was litigiously protected, culminating in a law suit in the 90s against 4.4BSD Lite, which was the first to claim to be rid of all AT&T code. Are you saying most installations were just unlicensed copies?
- systemvoltage 6y agoI heard it from Brian Kernighan's interview on Lex Fridman's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo
- lazylizard 6y agowas it called darwin? hah