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You have no idea what we're talking about. Are you not even old enough to have seen Jurassic Park?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOeY07qKU9c

macOS is absolutely Unix, and a lot more like mainstream Unix than many of the other vastly different Unix systems of the past and present, so exactly when did the definition of Unix suddenly tighten up so much that it somehow excludes macOS? And how does your arbitrary gatekeeping and delusional denial of the ubiquity and popularity of macOS, and ignorance of the Unix 03 certification, the embedded, real time, and automotive space, and many other Unix operating systems you've never heard of or used, suddenly change the actual definition of Unix that the rest of the world uses?

Have you ever even attended or presented at a Usenix conference? Or worked for a company like UniPress who ports cross platform software to many extremely different Unix systems? Maybe then you'd be more qualified to singlehandedly change the definition of the word, and erase Unix 03 certification from existence, and shut down all the computers and devices running it, but you're not. Who do you think you are, one of Musk's DOGE script kiddies? Because you sound as overconfident and factually incorrect as one.

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

>The "no true Scotsman" fallacy is committed when the arguer satisfies the following conditions:

>1) not publicly retreating from the initial, falsified a posteriori assertion: CHECK

>2) offering a modified assertion that definitionally excludes a targeted unwanted counterexample: DOUBLE CHECK

>3) using rhetoric to signal the modification: TRIPLE CHECK

macOS, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris (still technically certified), Inspur K-UX, EulerOS, etc.

POSIX-compliant and Unix-alike OSes (e.g., FreeBSD, QNX, etc.) are very active in many common domains (networking, firewalls, embedded, industrial).

Mission-critical infrastructure, telco, financial systems, military/spacecraft, automotive, and embedded still widely use non-Linux Unix or Unix-like systems.

QNX in cars, AIX in banks, Illumos in storage, RTEMS in space systems.




keep those ad hominems coming kiddo

have fun pretending anything you said still matters in 2025


You have no clue what you're talking about, you're completely incapable and afraid to respond to any of my points, and you've been just making shit up and throwing around random buzzwords you don't understand for quit some time now, incoherently unable to complete a sentence, like you're on ketamine. Nobody's falling for any of it. All you've done is make ad hominem attacks, no true scotsman defenses, move the goalposts, then hypocritically accuse other people of doing exactly what you just did: textbook psychological projection. Every single leaf of this argument is you unable to take the L, counter any the valid arguments other people have made, and implicitly admitting defeat that you can't defend anything you said or counter anything anyone else has.

macOS is certified Unix, widely used and extremely popular, and there's absolutely nothing you can do or say that will change that fact, and everyone knows it.




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