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MacOS is the only OS that ships with a dictionary. Because Apple pays the dictionary publisher for the rights to it. Who’ll flip the bill for the Linux dictionary?

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Have you looked in /usr/share/dict on any Linux desktops lately?

Wiktionary is Free; dict.org that they're using now uses a number of freely redistributable sources: GCIDE, WordNet, Moby Thesaurus II, etc.

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