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You can have controlling stake in a company without working there day to day. Apple literally destroyed those companies. After Apple acquired NeXT there was on
by dangus 1y ago
You can have controlling stake in a company without working there day to day.
Apple literally destroyed those companies. After Apple acquired NeXT there was one less operating system on the market. PA Semi now doesn’t have a product that is sold to the open market.
- ascorbic 1y agoApple bought NeXT and made it one of the most popular operating systems on the planet.
- dangus 1y agoBut if Apple didn’t buy them, Apple would have made their own operating system and NeXT might still be here today with their own operating system. Like I said, a competitor was removed from the market.
- ascorbic 1y agoThe only operating system that was killed was Mac OS 9, while NeXTSTEP lives on in billions of devices today
- tracker1 1y agoWhat do you think MacOS since v10 is?
- 9rx 1y agoMacOS v10+ accounts for NeXTSTEP, but what do you consider to be the current MacOS (classic) to satisfy the not having one less operating system condition?
- tracker1 1y agoOh noes... you mean there's no more Netware, Lantastic or (insert dozens of others), theres only (insert hundreds of linux derivatives), (insert a handful of BSD variants), (insert solaris variants), (insert clones), and a half dozen relatively popular new OSes all under current development, not counting the three popular mainstream commercial providers?
- 9rx 1y agoTell us more about this "you mean there's no more Netware, Lantastic or (insert dozens of others), theres only (insert hundreds of linux derivatives), (insert a handful of BSD variants), (insert solaris variants), (insert clones), and a half dozen relatively popular new OSes all under current development, not counting the three popular mainstream commercial providers" MacOS classic successor. Does the project have a website? What kind of systems does it run on? How do we acquire it?
- tracker1 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems
- 9rx 1y ago'you mean there's no more Netware, Lantastic or (insert dozens of others), theres only (insert hundreds of linux derivatives), (insert a handful of BSD variants), (insert solaris variants), (insert clones), and a half dozen relatively popular new OSes all under current development, not counting the three popular mainstream commercial providers' is strangely absent from your list. Perhaps it has a shorter trade name?
- dangus 1y agoIt’s the ashes or NeXT. If Apple hadn’t bought them, they’d have to make their own OS or license something else, and NeXT would potentially still be here making their OS. We have one less choice on the market because Apple acquired them. See also: DarkSky. No more Android version!
- turnsout 1y agoHate to break it to you, but NeXTSTEP failed in the marketplace. If Apple hadn't bought them, they'd still be gone. But more importantly: who cares? There is no moral imperative to keep products alive. It's just stuff that people make. Products come and go, and founders owe you nothing.
- dangus 1y agoWho cares right? Maybe Apple and Google and Microsoft should just merge. Then we can just use the same operating system for everything. Can’t think of any downside! I’m not mourning the loss of a product, I’m lamenting the negative externalities of acquisitions. Some of them are a net positive for sure but it seems like those are in the minority.
- tracker1 1y agoI don't understand your argument... there are quite a few operating systems receiving active development. For that matter, just with the Linux kernel there are dozens of operating system distributions, several based on BSD and more still when you consider ongoing support for Solaris forks and more bespoke OSes (redux, etc) and clones (ReactOS, Haiku, etc). If YOU want another OS, there's nobody stopping you from developing, forking or otherwise funding the creation or developing one.
- turnsout 1y agolmao ok