> As to why not Linux? I don't want Linux. It's too bogged down by corporate interests.
This is a rather funny statement because at various points, high level execs at Apple Computer (and on another occasion Sun Micro) invited Linus Torvalds out to lunch and pitched teaming up together to take on Microsoft. Linus turned them down.
Then a little bit later Jordan Hubbard announces FreeBSD would be the UNIX layer of OS X.
> Then a little bit later Jordan Hubbard announces FreeBSD would be the UNIX layer of OS X.
But it's not. It's NeXTStep. They took a little bit of userland but that's about it. A lot of it is not even freebsd-specific like zsh and bash (the ancient version apple ships)
I wonder if more was planned at first. Similar to when Jonathan Schwartz proudly announced ZFS being part of macOS but it only ever made it to a beta and was removed again.
This is a rather funny statement because at various points, high level execs at Apple Computer (and on another occasion Sun Micro) invited Linus Torvalds out to lunch and pitched teaming up together to take on Microsoft. Linus turned them down.
Then a little bit later Jordan Hubbard announces FreeBSD would be the UNIX layer of OS X.