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shiggerino on June 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?

Proprietary software doesn't give the developers any freedom beyond what they already have by virtue of being the copyright holders to their code.

arca_vorago on June 18, 2015 [–]

Even then, you can still do that with FOSS code so what's the need? The Mozilla/Icecat(weasel) saga is a good example.

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