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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by mattl on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:18AM (#19399385)
Still proprietary though, right? With underlying free libraries and compilers?
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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by cnorthwood on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:23AM (#19399427)
Yes, it's gratis, not libre. I understood the parent comment to be referring to the price.
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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by mattl on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:29AM (#19399482)
I understood it the other way. Proprietary cables to free tools. ️
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Re:Addressing Spotify’s Claims by simonh on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:50AM (#19399657)
The components that are specific to the Mac, such as the GUI builder, are closed source. All the underlying tooling and technologies such as the LLVM compiler stack, Clang, etc are published by Apple as open source and widely used on other platforms.
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