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Re:Growl in Retirement by Someone on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:08PM (#25241737)
IIRC, Growl was created because a similar feature of Mac OS didn’t make it into the first release of Mac OS X (sorry, can’t find pictures or documentation online)

If so, I think its developers can’t be completely unhappy about the end result. Also, their code is (3-clause) BSD licensed. If the product lives on in spirit, does it really matter where the code came from?

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Re:Growl in Retirement by ChrisGrowl on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:46AM (#25245357)
I never used Mac OS until OS X because I wanted a terminal with Unix userland and also ms office. I don’t know what feature you’re talking about and it was not a consideration when coming up with Growl.
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Re:Growl in Retirement by kergonath on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:56AM (#25243907)
You’re right, but Growl did much more than the notifications in classic MacOS. Also, Apple took their sweet time to get their notification system for OS X.
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