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0 pointsvinceguidry1y ago0 comments

Apple doesn't ship any of these anymore.

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And guess what application developers install immediately after getting their MacBooks?

The GPL licensed git.

If I'm forced to use MacOS, I'm fine installing git, GNU make or whatever I want for myself. But I don't see any downsides in Apple being unable to distribute those applications together with their OS.

kstrauser1y ago

> And guess what application developers install immediately after getting their MacBooks? The GPL licensed git.

Why would they do that? I didn't, because macOS ships with version 2.39.5 as /usr/bin/git. You're free to upgrade to a newer version, of course, but the included one is recent enough for most uses.

koiueo1y ago

Does macOS include git? Oh. My bad. I concluded from the previous comment that Apple doesn't ship bash because it's GPL and hence doesn't ship anything GPL.

And my point was: this is fine. Even if it was true.

But as this is not the case, I see even fewer arguments against GPL licenses.

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vinceguidryOP1y ago

Last time I was forced to use MacOS, I did all my work in a Linux VM. And still hated it.

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koiueo1y ago

And guess what application developers install immediately after getting their MacBooks?

The GPL licensed git.

kstrauser1y ago

> And guess what application developers install immediately after getting their MacBooks? The GPL licensed git.

Why would they do that? I didn't, because macOS ships with version 2.39.5 as /usr/bin/git. You're free to upgrade to a newer version, of course, but the included one is recent enough for most uses.

koiueo1y ago

Does macOS include git? Oh. My bad. I concluded from the previous comment that Apple doesn't ship bash because it's GPL and hence doesn't ship anything GPL.

And my point was: this is fine. Even if it was true.

But as this is not the case, I see even fewer arguments against GPL licenses.

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vinceguidryOP1y ago

Last time I was forced to use MacOS, I did all my work in a Linux VM. And still hated it.

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