Nit: Apple open sources the majority of their BSD modifications, it's just that nobody upstream wants them apart from the few ex-Apple employees who try macOS bits out in those OSes for fun.
Yeah so? Apple should be punished for many other things like abusing dominance to get advantage in other industries, not this entitled "contributes nothing back".
It's not Apple's problem that the software was really free. If it were not free, Apple could have gone the windows route and make their own everything. Would not be hard since they control hardware.
Nothing sad here. Just the entitlement of people who do not want to pay for a good OS. If the OSS GPL Stallman-esque community was so good, they could have created a real competitor to macOS not the budget quality os called linux that only lifeless sys admin like people can use (on consumer desktop).
Yes, Linux, the OS that powers the majority of the web, the OS that runs the backend for even the most GPL-allergic companies like Apple, the OS that is present in over a billion shipping Android devices today? That Linux?
The reason people don't know about Linux is because it's lacking in consumer-facing design and because much of its use is largely invisible, not because it's GPL.
saagarjha|5 years ago
kick|5 years ago
rydre|5 years ago
It's not Apple's problem that the software was really free. If it were not free, Apple could have gone the windows route and make their own everything. Would not be hard since they control hardware.
Nothing sad here. Just the entitlement of people who do not want to pay for a good OS. If the OSS GPL Stallman-esque community was so good, they could have created a real competitor to macOS not the budget quality os called linux that only lifeless sys admin like people can use (on consumer desktop).
saagarjha|5 years ago
The reason people don't know about Linux is because it's lacking in consumer-facing design and because much of its use is largely invisible, not because it's GPL.