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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by massysett on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:56AM (#27539605)
> It used to be, but Apple seems to have lost interest in the Unix/Open Source side of macOS a decade ago. They've abandoned GNU tools after GPLv3 (2007), haven't added anything new, and just let the old stuff limp along until it's obsolete.

There's a whole lot more to Unix and open source than GNU. macOS has current versions of many open source tools, such as zsh, awk, sqlite, tar, git, and xz.

If one is being pedantic, GNU is not even "open source" but rather is "free software," and macOS certainly is not free software.

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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by smoldesu on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:45PM (#27541623)
None of that really matters when GNU is the predominant standard, though. You could tell your boss all about how great the MacOS coreutils are, but if your program doesn't compile, you're gonna be in trouble.
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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by jsjohnst on Thursday June 17, 2021 @01:32PM (#27542157)
> GNU is the predominant standard

On Linux, sure, but not on other Unix OSes (like *BSD)

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Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey by max_hammer on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:46PM (#27543788)
`awk` is part of GNU. And Unix™ is a proprietary product of AT&T.
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