Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on 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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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.
Humans are apes.
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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.
Is a human a type of ape? No.
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I love the idea of licensing comments XD
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'm not that surprised, a lot of people around me dot have a clear picture of what is the relationship between MacOS, Linux and Unix is. So I suppose some of them would guess that Linux is a modern fork of Unix and MacOS based on Unix.
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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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.
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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You're probably the only one, but thank you for saying that.
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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Does the lack of licensing in this comment mean it's okay to steal?
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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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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I kind of suspected it might be something like that, but it was a genuine query that, yes, was intended to be mildly humorous. I don't intentionally annoy except maybe my wife.
Your indirect accusation made me smirk, but as far as I've noticed you're the only one who does this without doing it on every comment, which seemed interesting enough to observe.
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macOS is UNIX, certified UNIX actually.
But I mean, if someone had the merest impression of macOS and was very familiar with Linux and never bothered to look any further then I'd understand. Maybe they only played around with macOS a little and saw the terminal app had bash and most all the familiar tools as on Linux. It's not hard to see why they might've thought it's Linux based.
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Well that explains a lot…
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Is a human a type of ape? No.
12% of humans believe we aren’t apes
Edit: hopeful the number is actually this low
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I kind of suspected it might be something like that, but it was a genuine query that, yes, was intended to be mildly humorous. I don't intentionally annoy except maybe my wife.
Your indirect accusation made me smirk, but as far as I've noticed you're the only one who does this without doing it on every comment, which seemed interesting enough to observe.
Yeah, I tend to push back a bit, as I wish people would discuss the subject at hand that the comment by me was made about, and not the license that I used in my comment.
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Sillies! It's based on GNU!
GNU/MacOS/TimApple/Proprietary/Unix
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12% of humans believe we aren’t apes
Edit: hopeful the number is actually this low
12% of humans believe we aren’t apes
All humans are apes, those people moreso than most.
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Humans are apes.
Except humans aren't apes. Humans are great apes.
Given the topic, this distinction is highly relevant.
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Yeah, I tend to push back a bit, as I wish people would discuss the subject at hand that the comment by me was made about, and not the license that I used in my comment.
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Ah. Well, I have questions or comments I could make about the license. However, while I feel passionately about Unix and Linux and OSS in general, I don't think I have anything useful or interesting to add to the thread that hasn't already been said.
I wish you luck both with finding engaging conversation and with your licensing.
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macOS is UNIX, certified UNIX actually.
But I mean, if someone had the merest impression of macOS and was very familiar with Linux and never bothered to look any further then I'd understand. Maybe they only played around with macOS a little and saw the terminal app had bash and most all the familiar tools as on Linux. It's not hard to see why they might've thought it's Linux based.
Isnt
zshthe default macos shell?
