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Why OS X and not Linux?
There is really nothing religious about our use of open source. We use it because itâs better on the scales of merit that we care about. For infrastructure software, such as web servers, databases, server operating systems, programming languages, and we ... Continue reading »
There is really nothing religious about our use of open source. We use it because itâs better on the scales of merit that we care about. For infrastructure software, such as web servers, databases, server operating systems, programming languages, and we ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
The only unclear bit is when you're talking about "power of the underlying OS".
Personally, I feel that a lot of the "power" of Linux is based on its openness and adherence to the standards of software freedom. In that regard, I can't think of an OS that's more opposite of Linux than OSX, so being "practically the same" is certainly a subjective judgement.
1 year ago
Not the power in opinion towards "freedom".
1 year ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#Description
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Ma...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specif...
So from what you said, Solaris was not powerful until it became "free", or is it not at all?
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Looks like only a portion of Solaris is open, like OS X.
1 year ago
Most of the most important advantages of Linux ("power", in my mind) come from its open and free (as in freedom) nature.
I won't argue that OSX has benefited by basing their product on stuff that was originally developed in this fashion, but the act of making their extensions to that base closed and proprietary takes a great deal away from that advantage, in my opinion.