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Perhaps it would be if the license was different.


They began development at NeXT in 1985, 6 years before Linux.


Unlikely. The Apple kernel guys are purists and would probably use the BSD kernel even if Linux were MIT licensed.


In the 90s they had a project called MkLinux that had Linux combined with Mach in a similar position to where BSD is in XNU. This was shortly after the NeXT acquisition.

I bet they were considering it.

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




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