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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn't know we already passed 4%.

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[–] c10l 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

UNIX != open source.

In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's built on top of BSD, which is opensource.

[–] c10l 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You responded to “macOS is UNIX” with “it’s not open source”. I’m just illustrating how these 2 things are not correlated.

In any case, macOS is based on OpenBSD. Even the original BSD, which OpenBSD is based on, was not initially open source.

Everything you said was a straw man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can’t vouch for what it’s based on but I’ve always read the first release of macOS (then Mac OS X) was based on FreeBSD 4.2, not OpenBSD.

[–] c10l 2 points 4 months ago

You might be right. In either case, the argument stands but thanks for the correction.