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		mpweiher on Sept 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I like Common Lisp >> But again the landscape is dominated by FOSS. > Which landscape? There is not one landscape. Is Apple's XCode FOSS? Xcode the IDE is not. The Clang/LLVM compiler, LLDB debugger and many of the other tools are open source. http://llvm.org http://clang.llvm.org

_19qg on Sept 7, 2014 [–]

The whole development process for Apple's OSX or iOS is not 'free'. Many libraries for OSX or iOS are not free and not open source.

Apple's Cocoa is not FOSS, for example.

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