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by RachelF 721 days ago
Don't forget BSD - all Apple operating systems are based on it.
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Arguably they aren't the "alternative" so much as a variant of the original thing that got open sourced.
BSD stands for Berkeley Software* Distribution (of UNIX). It is a direct descent of UNIX itself, not an open source clone.
Software, not standard
Thank you.