We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom

Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by iheartmemcache on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:15AM (#11869922)

Came in here to be that guy and make this comment, but you beat me to it. Have an up-vote.

I can't anyone is even disputing the fact that OS X didn't largely benefit from the fact that there was tons of GNU/GPL tooling out of the box that power users could use. Bash? GCC/G++ (before the clang/llvm migration out)? GNU. X-windows (granted I don't think many people used it post-Carbon, but I remember using it on my iBook 266mhz...).

\/ Edit: Mea culpa. IIRC you're right re: tcsh. I haven't used OS X as a daily operating system since first year undergrad (placing that at just under a decade) so afford me some liberties with details, kindly :)

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by pvg on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:43AM (#11870135)

Well, OS X's ancestors had a largely BSD-derived userspace so that's neither here nor there. The strongest claim and perhaps biggest contribution, I think, was GCC on which NeXTs Objective C compiler was based from the beginning.

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by QuercusMax on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:47AM (#11870167)

If my memory serves me right, early OSX used tcsh as the default shell; it wasn't till around 10.4 or so that they switched to bash.

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Re:We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle ... by gaius on Thursday June 09, 2016 @11:43AM (#11870126)

GNU yes, but GNU pre-dates Linux. I first used GCC on SunOS.

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