Re: XDG and Freedesktop

On 7/1/25 09:01, John Ames wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 04:28:23 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
 

They sure as fuck are not on the other Unix I use these days, my
$WORK Macintosh.

>
But that’s not really a *nix system, is it? It is “Unix®”, but
“Unix®” is just a trademark that Apple has licensed, it doesn’t make
it work like people expect a *nix system to work.

 OSX is marvelous - it's Unix when freenix zealots want to count it for
representation in popularity contests vs. The Great Satan of Redmond,
but *not* Unix when they need to justify some arbitrary decision of a
freenix "standards" group as The Only Way. A true chameleon!
 

The moderately large Satan of Redmond gets us lots of refurbished machines
on which to run some other systems most notably GNU/Linux and several versions
of Unix.  So don't curse the Satan for whatever other sins of bad programming and
insecurity they have perpetuated but rather for the good ideas they have bought
and supressed.
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