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Re:No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to ... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:52PM (#24956236)
MIT/BSD licenses allow for proprietary forks. The most popular BSD-based kernel is Apple's, which isn't distributed under the BSD license. The most popular GPL kernel is Linux, which still is.

So with the BSD license somebody can take your work, improve it, distribute it under a proprietary license and supplant you in the market. Compare macOS or iOS installed base to FreeBSD.

But then the codebase is henceforth tied to that company. If Apple is dead in twenty years then probably nobody is still using the iOS kernel (and not because they switched back to FreeBSD), but if Google is dead in twenty years most likely Linux is still popular all over.

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Re:No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to ... by 67868018 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @09:58PM (#24956713)
MacOS/iOS is not based on a BSD kernel.

https://imgpile.com/images/uL3CFP.jpg

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Re:No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to ... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:44AM (#24960635)
macOS/iOS is based on a hybrid of the Mach kernel and the BSD kernel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU

And Mach too is available under BSD-like terms.

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Re:No-Code and the IKEA Effect: Software lock-in evolved to ... by p_l on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:29PM (#24962235)
It's important to remember it's not Free/Net/OpenBSD based, though, even if it had used bits and pieces from there to update its OSFMK derived kernel (OSFMK shared common origin point with NeXTSTEP kernel).

Arguably one can just call it Mach, as the bsd server part was delivered as part of Mach.

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