Next, they’ll ban toilet paper because cleaning your butt is “gay”

So what? How does he think Meta is liable for anything here?

And who are you voting for?

How dare I not be able to predict the future!

He was no longer playing Superman at that point

GASP!

But how‽

Cyclops. What a toolbox.

And in the X-Men ‘97 reboot, WOW! have they ramped up the toolbox factor.

Your personal disapproval of Apple’s direction does not negate their contributions.

Show me on the doll Where Apple hurt you…

I cited a couple of examples, that doesn’t mean I had to cite the entire pantheon in order to be correct.

Your lack of understanding and your narrowmindedness is not my fault.

Your hate and your personal anger against Apple is something you have to reconcile on your own.

Work out your own problems with a shrink. They have no place here.

If you can’t discuss simple technological issues without having an ego battle, it’s time to check yourself.

No shit, and I was pretty clear about how I described it in differentiating from what that project is doing from what Apple is doing. Try not to rage hate before you actually read what I said.

I’m not. And if you couldn’t tell that from what I said, then, you obviously didn’t bother to actually read it, you just made a judgment because I said the word Apple.

You clearly are either having difficulty reading what I said, or did not bother to read what I said. Nothing of what you said reflect accurately my comment. Read my comment again, and perhaps you’ll have a better understanding.

I really don’t get

I really understand that. Because you went to a great deal of effort to explain how you also went to a great deal of effort, not to understand what I went through a great deal of effort to explain. You also went to a great deal of effort to explain how you have ignored multiple sources of information, explaining what you don’t understand.

I really understand that. Because you went to a great deal of effort to explain how you also went to a great deal of effort, not to understand what I went through a great deal of effort to explain. You also went to a great deal of effort to explain how you have ignored multiple sources of information, explaining what you don’t understand.

You’ve gone to a great deal of effort to explain that you don’t understand what I said, because you ignored everything I said, and the services I provided to explain it. I can only recommend at this point that you revisit the comment you replied to two, because it provides everything to explain everything you claim to not understand.

I just hope that this time, you do it in good faith, rather than an intentional effort to sabotage further intelligent discussion.

Feel free to exit the conversation of you disapprove of the tone.

I am not your employee. Do not speak to me as if am. You have done nothing, nor have I ever agreed, to be treated as such. Your entitlement is underserved.

If you insist on being treated as an entire and elevated elite, you will be disappointed. I will never do that because you have not earned that level of respect. I doubt you’re capable of it.

If Apple really care Asahi

They don’t and they shouldn’t. I clearly explained why. Did you even read my comment? Lmao (I wish they did, but it’s perfectly understandable why they don’t)

Edit: and when it comes to being hostile, they’re not even being hostile to the quasi-FOSS OCLP which enables outdated versions of macOS to run on older Mac hardware— a valiant project!

Apple cares as much about FOSS…

As over 30 years of their multi-billion-dollar contributions prove they do. Ignore the facts, but that doesn’t change the truth.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Like I said: you don’t have to like Apple in order to acknowledge the facts of their massive (and critical) contributions to FOSS

1. If murder is wrong, then murder is wrong. Just because the State does it doesn’t magically make it ok.
2. The death penalty has never been proven to be a deterrent to any crime
3. the death penalty had been proven to cost many times the cost of lifetime incarceration, sometimes between 300%-700%, all being paid by the taxpayer, sometimes resulting in the release of the perpetrator.
4. in car too many cases to be considered a “simple mistake”, later evidence has been used to exonerate death row inmates, proving that lives would have been lost due to failures of the justice system which could not have been rectified should the defendants had been executed. In such cases, the justice system would have failed. 5.vengeance is not justice. Anyone claiming relief from witnessing the death of a criminal perpetrator: beware of anyone who thirsts for blood, for they do not discriminate as to the source.

Do you think those two things are separate?

What year do you think this is? 1830 whatever?

EDIT: I’m not here to defend Apples shitbag practices. How could anyone? But, like it or not, they DO contribute to FOSS a lot, and have a solid record of doing so for decades. So, hate them honestly, but they do deserve some very real credit in some important places.

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1. i deleted that comment 12 seconds after I posted it. How are you seeing it?

UGH

And it’s not “built on top of” anything (unless you consider OS X being built on top of NeXTSEP - although it was really a port/evolution, but they’re both BSD derivatives, like BSD was based on System V). It’s certified UNIX and has been since 2001. A BSD variant, specifically, using a Mach microkernel descendant called Darwin. And a BSD microkernel! in the 1980s! Still not seeing that in linux! It would be revolutionary!

but Apple doesn’t provide official support for Linux or any drivers

So? Why should they? It’s a major competitor. Should they provide windows support too? Lol. (They don’t anymore, btw)

Plus Apple with their consistent policy of gatekeeping is everything but open source champion.

“Oh, boo hoo! They protect copyrights! Certainly they can’t also contribute to FOSS!”

WRONG!

Their current FOSS projects, including their brand new on-device ML/LLM (what the idiots call “AI”) models which aren’t even in iOS yet…

https://opensource.apple.com/

Their GitHub archive, including some older stuff:

https://github.com/apple

A bunch of older repos:

https://www.macosforge.org/

And this is just a taste. Let’s not forget that they, basically, single-handedly ran OpenGL for 12 years and totally invented OpenCL and immediately open-sourced that. and a lot more (oh, you like multicore processors? Thank Apple for the fact you can effectively use them without paying intel or Microsoft for licensing rights!) For over three decades, Apple has been, very quietly, one of the biggest corporate contributors to the open-source communities in history.

Before you keep taking a shit on them, I suggest you do a little bit of educating yourself.

Edit 2: hate apple, fine. But they are HUGE FOSS contributors for over 30 years to landmark projects and have even been historic takers-over over some projects (like OpenGL) when they would, otherwise, have died. And, again OpenCL was 100% Apple. The multicore processing world would be nowhere today without that without it. Thanks Apple!

So hate Apple all you like for the shitty things they do, but give the, credit for the great things they have given us all - and how the Linux world - has benefitted for free.

Yeah, you’d be surprised about how much that wouldn’t fly with the NYPD. I watch Matthew Silver run into the Union Sq. Whole Foods in a Speedo in a legit performance art piece.

The cops had little respect for that.

I did, tho. After he managed to escape, we met up after and smoked a spliff. Then I made it to class at Parsons.

That guy was very interesting to know while I was an undergrad at design school.