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		sramsay on Oct 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: macOS Catalina I was amazed to see that with Catalina, zsh is now the default shell on MacOS. Then it occurred to me that this is probably more about Apple's great GPL purge than anything else.

jabl on Oct 8, 2019 [–]

Yes, they were stuck on the ancient last GPLv2 release of bash. Surprising it took them so long.

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