| ▲ | randall 3 days ago |
| there’s no downside as far as i’m aware. |
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| ▲ | mdasen 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| There isn't much downside, but it probably involves a small amount of money (paid for the certification) and it means spending time making sure that everything remains 100% within spec. There's lots of little edge cases where BSDs differ from the spec and it means that Apple needs to take care not to drift from the spec. |
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| ▲ | al_borland 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Apple remaining in spec sounds like a good thing from a compatibility point of view. Am I missing something? I’m not sure why it’s coming off like people are complaining about this? | | |
| ▲ | Analemma_ 3 days ago | parent [-] | | It’s a spec that doesn’t really matter in practice. Like some other comments said, Linux, BSD and Solaris are “Unix but not Unix(tm)”, and nobody cares. |
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| ▲ | jorams 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | As pointed out by amiga386 both here[1] and in earlier posts, macOS is not actually compliant with the Unix spec and never has been. This has apparently not been a hindrance for the certification of every single non-compliant version. Unix certification for Apple might not involve anything other than payment. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239534 |
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| ▲ | bawolff 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Presumably certification costs money (?) |
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| ▲ | monkeyelite 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Probably a small amount especially when they just need to tell them what changed | | |
| ▲ | bawolff 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Given how little their target market cares about being a "real" unix, a small amount is probably more than the benefit it brings in. | | |
| ▲ | monkeyelite 2 days ago | parent [-] | | We are talking about it. | | |
| ▲ | bawolff 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Talk is cheap. | | |
| ▲ | monkeyelite 2 days ago | parent [-] | | In marketing, getting others to talk about you is not cheap. I don’t know what to tell you. Pick your theory: A) apple does it for no reason and it is a waste of money
B) they do it because they are aware or benefits that outweighs the small certification cost |
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| ▲ | hopelite 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Famous last words |
