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The more hilarious one is Apple. If open source didn't exist then NeXT would've still been able to build the Mach kernel but would not have the resources for t
by threeseed 3y ago
The more hilarious one is Apple.
If open source didn't exist then NeXT would've still been able to build the Mach kernel but would not have the resources for the rest of the stack. So the only option would have been BeOS.
Which means no Steve Jobs at Apple, no iPod, iPhone etc. The whole industry would look very different.
- wmf 3y agoIf BSD didn't exist, NeXT would have built on SVR4 like the other Unix vendors. It would have been slightly more expensive.