Comment by nasretdinov
2 years ago
I wonder what's the reason for Apple to do this though? Convincing more people to run a macOS server instead of a Linux/BSD one is unlikely the reason (in my mind), but it doesn't make any other sense either...
2 years ago
I wonder what's the reason for Apple to do this though? Convincing more people to run a macOS server instead of a Linux/BSD one is unlikely the reason (in my mind), but it doesn't make any other sense either...
> I wonder what's the reason for Apple to do this though?
> it was done to get Apple out of a $200M lawsuit filed by The Open Group, for use of the UNIX™ trademark in advertising.
https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...
Official Unix certification may matter at workplaces and institutions where such certifications are required for meeting some type of compliance criteria. For example, if I remember correctly, early versions of Windows NT had a POSIX compatibility layer, which was crucial for getting Windows NT accepted by some US government agencies.
Still, I hope Apple resurrects their server line… hardware and software. It’d be nice to have a server oriented UNIX running on Apple Silicon without resorting to Linux.
OpenBSD works on Apple silicon, has done for the last few releases.
Cutler must have hated that layer!