Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux
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Oh...
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I love the idea of licensing comments XD
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I get that it specifies tech workers, but still my first reaction was that 12% is pretty low. You can find a much higher percentage of people who are confidently wrong about way more important things.
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You're probably the only one, but thank you for saying that.
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I mean it's kind of like the "humans evolved from monkeys" or whatever primate you want to substitute for monkey. No, they branched off from a common ancestor though.
I mean lots of people get mixed up between BSD, Linux, UNIX, and all the variations over the years. Is MacOS a version of Linux? No. Is a human a type of ape? No. Are MacOS and Linux way, way closer than either are to Windows, hell yes. Just like people are way closer to being monkeys than swallows. There's a lot of mixed breeding in both examples and a lot of total incompatibilities as well.
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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as GNU, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. GNU is not an operating system unto itself, but rather a gathering of the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components that together with a Linux kernel comprise a full OS as defined by POSIX.
(Finally it's the other way around
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It's a mess: 24C3: Inside the Mac OS X Kernel ~inv.nadeko.net~.
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They probably are thinking of the FreeBSD stuff in macOS.
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12% of people believed JFK was going to be resurrected a year ago or some dumb shit. The point is, more than 1/4 of the population are not smart.
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Pft, everyone knows macOS is just a fancy DE on top of Hannah Montana Linux
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Most people think UNIX and Linux are the same thing so this makes sense. Obviously to us they aren’t but for most people it really doesn’t matter. I’m sure they’ll still sleep at night.
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Humans are apes.
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Is a human a type of ape? No.
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You are not new to lemmy, it says you registered a year ago, but is this the first time you meet a comment with license info? You are one of today's lucky 10000.
I've seen this on multiple users, usually it's some anti ai license. Like the laws stopped facebook from torrenting copyrighted books, an anti ai license will stop the next ai startup scraping the fediverse.
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I know a guy who worked on Unix in the '80s and he is very clear that Linux / MacOS are just Unix.
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I'm only aware of myself, and the one other person who I learned to do this from, on Lemmy. That was tenish months ago, but still.
I haven't seen anyone else, even the other person I mentioned previously, since having returned to Lemmy recently.
Be nice if you were right, but I haven't seen it really.
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Does the lack of licensing in this comment mean it's okay to steal?
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I would be more surprised if 12% of "tech workers" know what Linux is at all.
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I don't think just thanking someone is real content. /shrug
But answering someone who thinks they are being funny or annoying, by explaining things to them, would be considered content by me.
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