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        4 months ago

        UNIX != open source.

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

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            4 months ago

            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.

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          I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.

          It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.

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            Linux is quite an oddball in the UNIX world, tbh. It’s the most popular these days, and the one I’m most familiar with, but most Linux OSs are a lot more GNU than they are UNIX.