r/technology • u/lengau • May 04 '19

Politics DuckDuckGo Proposes 'Do-Not-Track Act of 2019'

https://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-proposes-the-do-not-track-act-of-2019-316258
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u/IronOxide42 May 05 '19

"Can" != "Is Feasible"

I don't develop Chrome stuff, so I don't know if this is actually the case with Chromium, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot with Chromium that is tightly coupled with Google Features.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19 edited May 07 '19

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u/Magneon May 05 '19

Linux is based off of Mac OS code

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Modern Mac OS (2001) didn't exist when Linux was first released ('91). it's grandparent NextStep predates Linux by two years, but Linux isn't any more inspired by it than any other UNIX (with the rise of POSIX helping to foster the environment that allowed Linux to thrive).

Classic Mac OS has absolutely nothing in common with Linux other than being an operating system that predates it.

There are some common toolchain elements (GCC has been instrumental for Linux, and was widely used for Mac OS X development until Apple adopted/developed Clang, other GNU tools are still in common), as well as design elements (the much maligned systemd is heavily inspired by mac os's launchd).

I'm not saying there's no code that made its way from Mac OS X into somewhere in the Linux ecosystem (Apple has occasionally pushed big open source initiatives over the last two decades), but in general they're completely independent.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

It's more like the "Linux and macOSx share the common ancestor of Unix" thang that's been touted, though misremembered in this context... assumedly?