• Square Singer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    The advantage is that you can rebrand it, close the source and sell it as your invention.

    Btw, did you know that Apple invented Unix?

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      Apple invented Unix?? What the hell are you talking about?

      Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna at Bell Labs developed and invented Unix.

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        1 year ago

        !woosh@feddit.de ;)

        This was a joke about how Apple just takes open source stuff (in this case, they used FreeBSD as a basis for MacOS/iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/watchOS), rebrands it and then claims it was theirs.

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          Where do they claim it was theirs? macOS is FreeBSD at its core, but Apple has built a lot of shit on top of it. It’s absolutely not FreeBSD with a name change.