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reactordevyesterday at 4:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

a lot of the kernel extensions are closed source proprietary. The core is still open but a lot of what makes modern Mac, Mac, are those kexts.


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mixdupyesterday at 5:10 PM

how has that changed over the past 20 years? the proprietary parts of Mac OS X and now macOS have been proprietary from the beginning

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WorldMakeryesterday at 5:13 PM

By referencing the 90s it is a reminder that Mac started on an entirely closed source kernel. It's a regression towards the Mac mean more than a regression away from it.

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