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Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by troupe on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:50PM (#15230366)
You do have access to the source code of the underlying operating system itself with Darwin don't you?
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Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by stuaxo on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:20PM (#15233465)
But not Cocoa and the UI :/
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Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by H1Supreme on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @08:44AM (#15237715)
Which is the good stuff. This is similar to the them open-sourcing Swift, but none of the libraries like UIKit that actually make it worth using for open source.
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Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by yellowapple on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @02:53AM (#15236082)
I'm still holding out hope that GNUStep will fix that someday.
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