Re: apple prevented freebsd on apple hardware?

https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon is alive.

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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
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