That's not how copyright works.
Do you have a source that says OS 9 is public domain?
Wouldn’t something over 21-22 years old by now be classified as abandon ware though ? I am just stating the idea, that Apple I am sure would not care today about OS 9.
It counts as abandonware in my book, and I really doubt Apple cares about OS9 at this point, but it's still not open source.
No -- you are probably thinking of patents. OS 9 is still most definitely protected by copyright. A copyright for hire lasts for 95 years from date of publication or 120 years from creation. No one can take Apple software and sell it for commercial gain.
My disagreement with you has nothing to do whether they care or not. You stated it's in the public domain…it's not. Making assumptions simply because something is no longer being used can hurt you legally should someone decide to do something about it.
95 years from now, Apple may not exist, we may not exist
But in all seriousness, If I reversed engineered OS 9 to run modern stuff, I bet Apple wouldn't give a damn. hell ! Most of their new staff (which most are horrible btw) don't even know or remember OS 9 as most of them were in diapers.understood.. My mistake.. I was making a point that Apple's employees hardly know what Cheetah is much less OS 9 or OS 8, as most of the new staff post-steve jobs were all in diapers or not born. Bottom line, I don't think Apple cares about os 9 anymore and if someone wanted to reverse engineer it, not sell it or market it - still, don't think they would give a .... if you know what I mean. OS 9 to them is an ancient relic of a computer era long gone.
fun fact, if you are correct and Apple does not exist (I'd almost bet money on it, IMHO due to a variety of reasons I am happy to discuss if others are interested), you would not be able to use any M1 Mac or Mac OS X version newer then 10.14. However, technically, you could use anything older then that (due to always online verification on installation of the OS).95 years from now, Apple may not exist, we may not exist
Agreed ! But, if someone wants to reverse engineer it, Apple I bet wouldn't even care, as most who work at Apple today never grew up during OS 9 era or OS 8 for that matter. Most were in diapers.
It's always good to respect licensing however. I specifically license everything I make entirely myself under the 3-BSD license, and I expect it to be respected (GitHub doesn't seem to care with co pilot, but GitHub has such good discovery of projects I guess I don't have a choice, although I do disagree with copilot immensely). There is a reason I don't directly distribute SM64EX mac ppc binaries, Nintendo can do nothing if I play the game right and just have an app that compiles SM64EX for mac ppc after the user provides the copyrighted game assets to sm64ex leopard compiler.
The people at Apple you keep mentioning aren't the ones in charge. Is Tim Cook a Millennial or Gen-Z? What about the corporate lawyers who work for Cook?
General rule - with the exception of @wicknix @alex_free and @z970 when someone announces on here they are going to start some fantastic, much anticipated project, you can assume that they'll disappear quickly and the project will never be heard of again...
Skill level + ambition ≠ to difficulty + time required.
As Manuel of Falwlty Towers kept reminding us, "I know notheeng"
I mean like I kinda started but it got messy and I gave up lol. it played videos and mp3's perfect on my old g4's and g5's.. even did some on windows 3.1 lol.