Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:08:54 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@sdf.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple prevented freebsd on apple hardware? Message-ID: <CAMtcK2oxQNMCTCCii0CeNFUJR9U-Wt8uBecE%2B5qO-dx33GsdZw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Z6_lpXZU8hAQ9H1f@hydra.lemis.com> References: <202502140832.51E8WigX022745@sdf.org> <Z6_lpXZU8hAQ9H1f@hydra.lemis.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon is alive. more at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freebsd+apple+silicon&t=osx&ia=web On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Friday, 14 February 2025 at 8:32:44 +0000, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > is it true that apple issued a veiled threat to freebsd to prevent > > a port to apple hardware? > > To the best of my knowledge, no. FreeBSD does not run on Apple > hardware, because that's not our emphasis, but NetBSD does. > > I do recall some contact from Apple decades ago. My memory is hazy, > but I think they were asking us not to include a port that replicated > Apple's GUI look and feel. It seems that they were more generally > successful there, since I'm not aware of any such port any more. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Sent from my desktop computer. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program > reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php > -- Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="ltr"><a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon">https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon</a>; is alive. <br><div><br></div><div>more at <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freebsd+apple+silicon&t=osx&ia=web">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freebsd+apple+silicon&t=osx&ia=web</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <<a href="mailto:grog@freebsd.org">grog@freebsd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Friday, 14 February 2025 at 8:32:44 +0000, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:<br> > is it true that apple issued a veiled threat to freebsd to prevent<br> > a port to apple hardware?<br> <br> To the best of my knowledge, no. FreeBSD does not run on Apple<br> hardware, because that's not our emphasis, but NetBSD does.<br> <br> I do recall some contact from Apple decades ago. My memory is hazy,<br> but I think they were asking us not to include a port that replicated<br> Apple's GUI look and feel. It seems that they were more generally<br> successful there, since I'm not aware of any such port any more.<br> <br> Greg<br> --<br> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.<br> If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients.<br> For more information, see <a href="http://www.lemis.com/questions.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.lemis.com/questions.html</a><br>; Sent from my desktop computer.<br> See complete headers for address and phone numbers.<br> This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program<br> reports problems, please read <a href="http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php</a><br>; </blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Paul Beard / <a href="http://www.paulbeard.org/" target="_blank">www.paulbeard.org/</a><br></div>help
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