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Re:Apple Open Source by jdworrells on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:51AM (#29495543)
Careful with that assertion. macOS is a derivative of NextStep, which is a derivative of 4.4BSD which also spawned FreeBSD and NetBSD. That makes macOS and FreeBSD cousins at best. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like
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Re:Apple Open Source by einr on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:51AM (#29495991)
macOS is absolutely not a FreeBSD fork, but there are lots of bits and pieces in current macOS that are direct derivatives of FreeBSD code, including kernel code, libc and lots of userland stuff.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...

"The BSD portion of the OS X kernel is derived primarily from FreeBSD, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features."

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Re:Apple Open Source by pornel on Friday December 10, 2021 @07:12AM (#29508961)
That was decades ago. Since then Apple went their own way. Anything of significance has been rewritten or mothballed as legacy baggage. Their open-source efforts were left to wither and die. It's been 14 years since Apple got scared of GPL3 and abandoned everything GNU-related.
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