"Basically, Jobs started off by trying to tell me that on the desktop there were just two players, Microsoft and Apple, and that he thought that the best thing I could do for Linux was to get in bed with Apple and try to get the open source people behind Mac OS X," Torvalds wrote.
I disagree with your oversimplification. Apple didn't care about the marketshare of NextStep, bc it was basically non existent. What they needed was a new OS base to start from, but in reality the best thing they got in that deal was Jobs. Next was nice, OSX has nearly completely different kernel, and honestly, who wants the antiquated BSD toolset compared to GNU?
Well, just a few days before, in the 10.10.5 update of OS X, Apple updated many userland utilities from upstream. This includes apache, curl and python. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205031).
But you are right in general. Such update is only once in a blue moon.
I'm not sure there's much of a correlation there. Most engineers using OS X (a group that's at least as large as Linux-using engineers) use the command line on a regular basis; I think it has more to do with the fact that even a dated *nix userland has 90%+ of what the majority of engineers need.
I disagree with your oversimplification. Apple didn't care about the marketshare of NextStep, bc it was basically non existent. What they needed was a new OS base to start from, but in reality the best thing they got in that deal was Jobs. Next was nice, OSX has nearly completely different kernel, and honestly, who wants the antiquated BSD toolset compared to GNU?