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That restriction is why people get to enjoy the Linux kernel and GCC today.

See where the MIT freedom has taken the BSDs, and what they have gotten out of it.



Again, I was only pointing out the differences in freedom, not making a judgement about which one is better... different people have different opinions on this one, after all.


MacOS is BSD after all, I dunno what to say.


macOS has parts of BSD, most of them never contributed back.

I suggest reading a bit about macOS internals and which of those parts you actually find on any BSD variant.




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