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It's FOSSMassive respect to his efforts so far. 🙏
Seth of the Fediverse@itsfoss Thank goodness he refused.
estibensitoJobs simply wanted to eliminate the competition.
Tuukka RPossibly
But also, this was one year before OSX came out, so it might be they just wanted to have someone who knows a LOT about unix-like kernels and demanded an NDA?
Very good point there!
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Mark T. Tomczak@itsfoss As a long user of MacOS, were I in Linus's position... Yeah, I can definitely see that choice.
System 7 and 8 worked but were definitely showing their age. OSX was a big bet and the right bet... But when it first came out it was overall slower than the OS it was intended to replace and required a lot of work to get to where it needed to be.
Hacking on someone else's decades of quick fixes doesn't sound nearly as fun as making your own mess.
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Hubert Figuière@itsfoss Citation Needed
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Scott Sigler@itsfoss I named a ship after this cat in one of my books.
mikeTesteLinuxQlub@itsfoss Fortunatly he did that, can't imagine what present we would have if he didn't shut the door to that job🤔 , a windobe/macos monopole ugh
not a martian, honest@itsfoss I think 2000 was a bit late for that anyway, by that point linux was already on the way to global domination on servers
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PerryM ✅@itsfoss Where is Steve Jobs these days?
He died of disinformation.
He had a form of cancer with a reasonable survival rate, but declined all useful forms of treatment because he believed more in some anti-vaxxer level shit.
When he finally changed course, the cancer was so advanced that he died soon after.
A Catalyst@itsfoss based.
Nicole ParsonsThis is especially important when a corporation accepts investment from murderous fossil fuel despots to promote AI.
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4
"Joint projects" sounds so much like Putin's "joint arctic energy projects"
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/saudi-prince-mbs-silicon-valley-east-palo-alto-12799624.php
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-turn-off-apple-intelligence/
Jonathan Lamothe@itsfoss Yeah, also from what I've heard about working for Jobs, all I can say is: Bullet. Freaking. Dodged.
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Al & Val's Modern Homesteading@itsfoss I'm pretty sure the position he offered was "doggy style:, but Linus wasn't interested in getting butt-fukked and we should all be happy about THAT!
Toni Aittoniemi@itsfoss There’s a cool tenacity in Finns. It’s nice to see the world acknowledging that.
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Daniel@itsfoss macos x 10.0 was released in march 2001, interesting that torvalds would have already had an opinion on it a year prior
Tony@tony @itsfoss well, I bought a tangerine imac in ~ 1999 so I can fully understand why Torvalds would not have liked macos 8 (soooo crashy ...) but it's a fundamentally different system than macos x - no XNU, no BSD, nothing Unixy about it at all.
https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/22/2893581/linus-torvalds-linux-founder-turned-down-steve-jobs-offer has a little more detail, although the link to Wired is dead now. Looks like it was Mach he was objecting to
Brewster KahleSteve Jobs in 1989 offered me a job at NeXT when I was working on WAIS (pre-Web publishing system Wide Area Information Server), but he said they did not do open protocols, they 'published' theirs (ours was z39.50).
I declined.
HTPC NZ@itsfoss yeah so called foss people spending absurd amounts of money on their darling fruit cult while complaining about cost of living when they - so called "techies" - can easily get better hardware and install linux or android custom rom. No... Have to give money to the only "good" corporation around hoping to see the second coming of Jobs.
soup2nuts@itsfoss Huge respect to Linus and all the great folks supporting #opensource and #linux ! Thank You.
MartinL_NZ ☑️@itsfoss
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Nishant Neeraj Agnihotri@itsfoss Cyberworld's freedom fighter.
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