like what if linux still was open source but had a lot of proprietary dependencies and packages and became more popular and therefore proprietary software came to it?? but it still would let you use any desktop environment and there would be a new proprietary desktop environment which was like gnome but easier

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Mac is based on BSD. It itself isn’t not BSD as I can’t rip out the parts from a mac install that are proprietary only to Apple and still have a running system. OSX uses a kernel called the XNU kernel. Where The XNU stands for X is not Unix. If that doesn’t scream loud in Clear it’s not BSD I don’t know what does.

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Didn’t know! Thanks for explaining

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You are welcome I’m glad you got to be the lucky 10,000

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That’s cute of you to think of :)

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