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bydoragasu ( 2717547 ) writes:
But if you think about Linux as an OS (what some would call GNU/Linux), you cannot include Android and ChromeOS on that list, sorry. So yeah, it's 3.5% + some of that 4.2% in the unknown, but no idea how much.
bygweihir ( 88907 ) writes:
On the other hand, if your realize the GNU userspace is also on Mac, and the xBSDs, the numbers go up.
A flat percentage is really not the way to go for this. Sadly, it is the limit of what most people "understand".
byallo ( 1728082 ) writes:
Both use BSD (style) utilities. The BSDs because they are BSDs why should they use GNU (but you can optionally install it, of course) and Mac because Apple doesn't want their OS to be tainted by GPL to be sure they won't be obliged to share sources of any component they do not want to open source.
Using GPL is the guarantee that Apple and Google keep their fingers off your software.
byOrangeTide ( 124937 ) writes:
Apple has a handful of GPL programs and publishes their modifications. Bash being the most obvious example.
ref: https://opensource.apple.com/r... [apple.com]
byallo ( 1728082 ) writes:
Didn't they change to zsh to avoid GPLv3 bash?
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byOrangeTide ( 124937 ) writes:
/bin/bash is still installed, so people's typical shell scripts like command-line installers and whatnot still work.
I think the default being zsh is that it's less buggy and has some nice interface features.
The real question we should ask is not why Apple includes zsh by default, but why Ubuntu makes you install it before you can use it.
byallo ( 1728082 ) writes:
Is it maybe a GPLv2 bash forked from before they changed the license to v3? As far as I remember Apple had a problem with the patent clause, which may stop them from suing contributors of GPLv3 programs over using techniques patented by Apple.
byOrangeTide ( 124937 ) writes:
Mystery solved. That's it exactly. Apple ships bash 3.2 which is GPLv2. The latest GPLv3 bash is version 5.3.
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