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Apple closes down OS X

Posted in: Mac OS X

Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple’s OS X is now a proprietary operating system. Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code. Stripped of openness, it no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial OS.