Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

Posted by john_alan 13 hours ago

Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry(www.opengroup.org)

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gfalcao 7 hours ago|

It appears here https://www.opengroup.org//openbrand/register/xy.htm

zitterbewegung 12 hours ago||

It could be that macOS 27 never got Unix certified. Wayback Machine on Oct 7th only shows macOS 26 being Unix certified.

https://web.archive.org/web/20261007103902/https://www.openg...

john_alan 11 hours ago|

27 wasn’t certified and 26 was listed but is now removed.

jasoneckert 9 hours ago|||

From that Wayback page, it looks like only one version of macOS is certified at any one time: the latest version. Since macOS Golden Gate was only recently released, perhaps it's a process blip and we'll see Golden Gate listed soon.

nateb2022 6 hours ago||

Nope, Sequoia and Tahoe both remain registered: https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm

spacedcowboy 8 hours ago|||

26 is in UNIX 03, if you use the pulldown

jasoneckert 9 hours ago||

Perhaps Apple decided to get out of the way and let IBM and SCO duke it out on that page ;-)

pmarreck 7 hours ago||

Maybe it’s time to come out with a new standard that supersedes POSIX and Unix cert?

Standards are useful and the fact that these have lasted this long is IMHO evidence of that

throw0101a 10 hours ago||

"Silently removed" meaning Apple probably did not bother going for certification of macOS 27.

And I'm not sure why it would be non-silently/loudly removed: is there an expectation of a press release or weblog post about non-certification?

mynegation 6 hours ago||

The registry of remaining products is a list of irrelevant operating systems hardly anyone uses anymore.

kylepomykala 12 hours ago||

I could see this being corporate incompetence or a genuine deviation. I wonder which one it is.

cowsandmilk 12 hours ago||

Better for both sides. They clearly have different visions for what an OS should do.

drdexebtjl 11 hours ago|

What? The Open Group has no vision for what an OS should do, it simply writes standards describing what implementations are already doing.

harladsinsteden 11 hours ago|

And does this have any actual impact on either the OS itself or its users?

john_alan 9 hours ago|

well not specifically, but directionally could mean less adherence to a UNIX like environment.

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