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Not at all, it means that many mistakenly use Linux syscalls as synonym for POSIX, thus making the same lock-in to GNU/Linux as Google, Apple and Microsoft do to their own systems.

*BSD devs jump of joy having to port GNU/Linux applications that depend on D-BUS, systemd, or any other Linux specific APIs.




Given that *BSDs also have many of their own extensions, (ie openbsd has many security extensions to the POSIX standard), that isn't the best example of a defense.




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