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0 pointszepto5y ago0 comments

> I oppose the generic bashing of Apple and Epic’s antitrust campaign, because these have nothing to do with creating an alternative. Indeed if Epic wins, iOS will become even more entrenched.

Supporting Epic’s anti-trust campaign has nothing to do with open source.

I think one of the most damaging things that could possibly happen to open source is that government starts to regulate how software is distributed.

This might damage Apple’s stock price and make a few more billions for Tim Sweeney, but it will make it much harder for an open free platform to succeed.

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lmm5y ago

I think that's crazy. The only reason we have an open-source movement at all is that people were able to start using GNU tools piecemeal on commercial unix. If unix vendors had been able to control what software got distributed for their platforms, open-source would never have got off the ground.

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