Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th May 2006 15:00 UTC, submitted by jeanmarc
"Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system. Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code. Stripped of openness, it no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial OS."
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2006-01-16
> GPL would not have forced Apple to anything at all
Sure it would have, because Apple was not the copyright holder. This discussion was not about which license _Apple_ chose, but about wether Apple would have chosen another kernel (like Linux) if it wasn't GPL. That was the starting point of the whole discussion as you can read back.