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

It is different, right now. No source code for Swift.

It's really simple: quit claiming to be open source, or actually ship the code.

cmsj on June 18, 2015 [–]

They didn't claim it is open source, they said it's going to be.

So, again, who is Apple combatting by announcing their intention to open source a language?

azinman2 on June 18, 2015 | [–]

No one, but the free software peeps always need to get their panties in a bunch about SOMETHING to proactively defend their dogma.

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