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by ohazi 2535 days ago
Mac OS is in no way based on the Linux kernel.
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amelius 2535 days ago
Perhaps it would be if the license was different.
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arcticbull 2535 days ago
They began development at NeXT in 1985, 6 years before Linux.
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jedberg 2535 days ago
Unlikely. The Apple kernel guys are purists and would probably use the BSD kernel even if Linux were MIT licensed.
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asveikau 2535 days ago
In the 90s they had a project called MkLinux that had Linux combined with Mach in a similar position to where BSD is in XNU. This was shortly after the NeXT acquisition.

I bet they were considering it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

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