• Square Singer
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    501 year ago

    The advantage is that you can rebrand it, close the source and sell it as your invention.

    Btw, did you know that Apple invented Unix?

    • @MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml
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      221 year ago

      Apple invented Unix?? What the hell are you talking about?

      Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna at Bell Labs developed and invented Unix.

      • Square Singer
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        521 year ago

        !woosh@feddit.de ;)

        This was a joke about how Apple just takes open source stuff (in this case, they used FreeBSD as a basis for MacOS/iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/watchOS), rebrands it and then claims it was theirs.

        • 6xpipe_
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          81 year ago

          Where do they claim it was theirs? macOS is FreeBSD at its core, but Apple has built a lot of shit on top of it. It’s absolutely not FreeBSD with a name change.