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[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 104 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No, major OS releases used to cost money for a license. The same way a Windows 11 license costs money. Apple stopped charging for OS releases but Microsoft still does.

But Lemmy assured me that Apple is BAD!

[–] Twipped@l.twipped.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

MacOS never had licenses, owning a mac was the license because you couldn't run it on non-apple hardware* until they switched to Intel. I got OS8 from a copy of MacAddict.

* not counting Gil Amelio's ill-fated hardware mac clone program