Comment by flomo
2 hours ago
They did a serious technical evaluation of MS WinNT. They also obviously knew about Linux. Sources: same as yours.
2 hours ago
They did a serious technical evaluation of MS WinNT. They also obviously knew about Linux. Sources: same as yours.
To the point Apple had their own Linux distro for a little while, MkLinux.
Checked this on wikipedia, and MkLinux came out after they bought Next. ("The mach kernel company"). But obviously everyone in this space knew about Linux.