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UNIX was a proprietary OS but literally everyone used it in the 80’s - without a license. Campuses to labs around the US.

We need to nuke the Apple bullshit from MacOS Catalina and convert it into people’s operating system. Ethics be damned.




What UNIX are you thinking of? Even the Berkeley distribution appeared to require a license from AT&T to use, for V7 UNIX. Anything with AT&T's code was litigiously protected, culminating in a law suit in the 90s against 4.4BSD Lite, which was the first to claim to be rid of all AT&T code. Are you saying most installations were just unlicensed copies?


I heard it from Brian Kernighan's interview on Lex Fridman's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo


If only there were freely available, open source UNIX clones in the 21st century. Oh well!


Those clones have issues with multiple monitor setups and can’t run Photoshop.




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