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Oh, and importantly, the Flash Plugin, the runtime, is not even open source today. Making the tooling open source is important and good, but also tends not to b
by pixelmonkey 12y ago
Oh, and importantly, the Flash Plugin, the runtime, is not even open source today. Making the tooling open source is important and good, but also tends not to be enough.
- ytch 12y agoSo opensource a language maybe isn't a problem? Regardless the openness of obj-c and swift, the iPhone runtime is still close-sourced. And you can write your own swift compiler in LLVM, even if apple don't opensource it.
- mantrax5 12y agoOpen source is rarely the problem in the real world. But that's what you get from people who see divide the software world in "open" and "closed". At one point or another your software needs to run on a piece of hardware. At least some of it won't be open, because as IBM learned in the 80s, you end up giving your hard earned lunch to your competitors.