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Comment by stefan_

2 years ago

I can understand shipping the old stuff because you don't give a fuck, but why on earth are they .. patching them. Jesus.

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callalex  2 years ago

The explicit stated reason is to avoid copyleft.

  • epcoa  2 years ago

    Up to date BSD code would still avoid copyleft so that is not a valid explanation.

    • jahav  2 years ago

      Maybe when uutils ship their gnu compatible version(deviations from GNU are considered bugs), macos will update.

      MIT, Rust, active development... Maybe in few years.

    • vbezhenar  2 years ago

      macOS Ventura ships zsh 5.9 which is latest version and was released 2022-05-14. Not sure about grep, but at least some of their unix components are up to date.

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