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

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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