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[–] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Mac is BSD, and the Darwin kernel is open source.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 4 days ago

I forgot about the latter, thanks for the reminder:-).

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's worth noting that Apple has (for example) gone so far as to replace bash with zsh just because the GPL v3 was too copyleft for them to handle. In other words, fuck Apple.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Right decision but for the wrong reason.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Oh, I thought it was because zsh is better.

[–] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's the point of the BSD license.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 4 days ago

Unless you're a copyleft developer your opinion on the decisions of the creators is hilariously irrelevant.