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You didn’t come off rude, but there was a bit of indignance— but I interpreted that as directed towards Apple, not at me.

I grew up with Steve Job’s Apple, not Tim Cook’s Apple. Those two were galaxies apart. While Steve Jones was, perhaps, the biggest asshole in the entire world of computers, he insured that Apple and Apple computers, and Apple operating systems were the best. They were open, they were open source, and they served, before anyone, the user. Under Steve Jobs, Apple computer went up against the goddamn United States, Supreme Court, and won, in the name of user freedom and user privacy, not just for Apple users, but for everyone.

Because of Steve Jobs, we finally got the first and only BSD distro for PCs— the very PCs that Steve Jobs, himself, invented. (By means of an extraordinarily talented team of engineers at the company he created, NeXT). Then, by means of business wizardry, he tricked the idiots remaining at Apple computers to buyout him and the remaining people at NeXT computers back into Apple, and convincing them to adopt NeXTSTEP as the new Mac OS X. The first iteration of BSD as a consumer-faced operating system. A silent revolution for UNIX. And FOSS. hate on Apple all you like, but even to this day, they’re one of the biggest single contributors to the free and open source software movement.

And when he died, that all ended under the leadership of Tim Cook who spent his time rallying stock prices and profits and sucking Donald Trump‘s cock. Not to mention being a huge traitor to the LGBTQ community as a gay man myself, we all fucking hate that Cunt.

Now we have a new CEO, and we’ll see how that goes.

Before Linux was a widespread viable option like it is today, the BSD option offered by Apple and the FOSS contributions they made were a very important manner in this community.

• USB. 1. 2. 3. Thanks, Apple!
• firewire. 400. 800. Thanks, Apple!
• thunderbolt. 1. 2. 3. 4. Thanks, Apple!
• HDMI thanks Apple!
• DisplayPort - thanks Apple!

I could go on, covering 40 years of I/O transport technologies that Apple has been crucial in developing or helping to develop, but I’ll save you 20 hours of the lecture. Google it if you’re curious. but, long story short, we wouldn’t have any of that shit without Apple.

And just because Apple, as a corporate entity, has become the unsufferable shit they are today, shouldn’t subtract from the contributions they’ve made in the past, nor the contributions they still make today.

Under their veil of corporate cuntery, Apple still makes massive contributions to the FOSS community. Hopefully, under the leadership of a new CEO, we will see improvement in conduct and culture.