• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I used to use MacOS OS X in the mid-2000s, and the reason why I liked it was precisely because it was the best UNIX.

    It’s a shame Apple moved away from things like bash, Applescript, Automator, Xserve, machines with toolless chassis and good upgradability, etc.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a better timeline where Woz was also brought back to Apple, OS X was just another linux distro that came with Apple’s very nice hardware, and the combined Linux and Mac user space meant game devs would take it seriously. Also, Mac/linux had a real foothold in the educational space again.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, and that shift from copyleft to permissive (bash is GPL-licensed; zsh is MIT-licensed) is emblematic of Apple going from genuinely wanting users to have full control of their system to only begrudgingly tolerating it when they can’t stop it entirely. Apple switched precisely because bash upgraded from GPLv2 to GPLv3 and Apple was butthurt about users’ rights being better protected.