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usonian

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1. The company with a small army of lawyers did this:

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 05:14 AM

Monday

Apple switched to zsh to avoid the licensing obligations of GPLv3 required by current versions of bash.

And that is all.

chsh -s /bin/bash

However: Apple still distributes a version (of bash) licensed under GPLv2. You can update it.

No lawyer makes programming decisions for me.

Proof of pudding: Show me a script that begins with
#! /bin/zsh

🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

Real programmers write scripts in perl. IMNSHO
It does so much more and is 1337.

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Anyone know why the old csh is now codice non grata ? And what's so freakin' hot about zsh ? [View all] eppur_se_muova Monday OP

The company with a small army of lawyers did this: usonian Monday #1

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Thanks for the link. I'm the curmudgeonly type who resents people fixing things that aren't broken. eppur_se_muova Thursday #3

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