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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux advocacy
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:29:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:37:56 -0400, Joel wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>> It has Unix within it, I grant that ...
>>
>> No, it has the legal right to use the “Unix” trademark, which is not
>> quite what normal people mean when they say “It’s a Unix system, I know
>> this!”.
> 
> That's not really true, you can do anything with it ...

Not quite. Apple is insisting on signed software now, so users of Open 
Source have to negotiate continual off-putting warnings about “untrusted” 
apps every time they try to install something.