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Indeed, NeXTSTEP was purchased by Apple, as a part of NeXT Inc. NeXT Inc., in turn, was originally founded by some guy named Steve. So yeah, not exactly stole
by mturmon 4y ago
Indeed, NeXTSTEP was purchased by Apple, as a part of NeXT Inc.
NeXT Inc., in turn, was originally founded by some guy named Steve.
So yeah, not exactly stolen.
- anthk 4y agoNot "stolen" in a derogative way, but OFC I knew NeXT it's from Steve. But Apple without NeXT and BSD core it would die in 2001 against XP in the desktops. 2000 already was lights ahead Mac OS 9. In scientific Unix usage, GNU/Linux already won.
- eloisant 4y agoApple needed a new OS, for sure, just like Microsoft needed a new OS after their DOS-based Windows 9x branch. But there were other options than NeXT. They nearly bought Be (and BeOS) instead of NeXT and that might have worked. Also they could have built a new OS on top of BSD without NeXT, that might have worked as well. Of course by buying NeXT they also got Steve Jobs back and that's a big part of what made them successful in the 2000's. And by the way, Apple's rebirth in the 2000's was largely due to the iPod and iTunes more than MacOSX. It didn't really made a dent into XP's market share.
- anthk 4y agoNT borrowed a lot form VMS, I'm sure. But Apple took NeXTStep, a Mach kernel, did a facelift on the UI, and put Carbon and a Mac OS compat layer on top. On XP, well, MS's reaction was not as calm. They had to release Vista with tons of FX as OSX looked much better than XP. Everyone copied OSX' interface, even under GNU/Linux/BSD and Fluxbox envs.