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>How could Apple break linux sw?

Software must communicate with the OS to work and Apple does not seem to care much about doing things which will break software from the linux/OSS community. This is actually one the primary reasons I gave up OSX/Apple, the other being they dropped support for classic apps, in one update they rendered 75% of the software I used unusable.

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Sorry I called you an AI, but I think the problem is that you're using "linux/OSS" to refer to things like FF or VLC that happen to be OSS, and run on both Linux and macOS. Apple for sure has been getting increasingly hostile to developers, these days getting basic tools set up via homebrew etc. on newer releases of macOS is getting ridiculous. But that doesn't have any bearing on the stability of Linux releases of those apps, which is why it seemed like an impossible non-sequitur.

I was using "linux/OSS" to refer to software which originates from the the linux ecosystem and implying the cross platform aspect. I did not use the phrase "cross platform" because I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that cross platform software which originates from the OSX ecosystem is less vulnerable since they tend to know OSX better and keep up to date on changes in OSX. I probably should have just said "software from the linux ecosystem" but my language skills have been lacking today.