Re: “KDE For Windows 10 Exiles” Campaign

On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 19:00:19 -0700, T wrote:

On 6/6/25 5:50 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 04:04:46 -0700, T wrote:
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OSx is to damned weird to use anyway.

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It’s officially “Unix”, but it doesn’t quite work the way people expect
when they think of “Unix”.

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The grouches on OSx forums get testy with you if you call it Unix.  They
demand you call it POSIX.  It is still Unix.

Calling it “POSIX” doesn’t really help
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeku3hDzrM>.

This is why a lot of people say “*nix”. It dodges the trademark, even
as the name “Unix” still occurs in some of the details. For example,
the “Unix philosophy” is a core part of this. E.g. the system should
be a bunch of toolkits that implement only mechanism, without imposing
a particular policy: let the users/admins/developers implement
whatever policies they want with the help of those toolkits.