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Arguing about "the point" misses the point. There's plenty of room for both free software and open source software.

There's room for plenty of things that I don't care about. I don't care about open source software that is still controlled by Apple.

Fair enough. For my part, I would need to see a wider community supporting the language before I depended on it on non-Apple systems. I'll have to wait and see on that point. But that is a plausible outcome - and (in my opinion) more likely because they chose an open source license rather than a free software license.

yeah, very self consistent, pretend you care about the GPL, then decide it is the vendor you really care about. Who cares that Apple controls GPL software installed on almost every GNU/Linux machine?

> yeah, very self consistent, pretend you care about the GPL, then decide it is the vendor you really care about.

No, I'd be saying that about any other vendor who released code under a proprietary open source license, too.

> Who cares that Apple controls GPL software installed on almost every GNU/Linux machine?

How exactly do you think they do that?

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