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On 2025-04-02 16:38, Marion wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:34:53 +1300, Your Name wrote :
> 
> 
>>>>> But Apple is a commercial system. They do not provide free software.
>>>>
>>>> The two are not mutually exclusive. Some Apple funding goes to LLVM and
>>>> CUPS, that I can think of. Does that count as ´providing¡ Free software to
>>>> you?
>>>
>>> Ok, agreed, they do provide some free software.
>>
>> Apple of course provides a ton of free software for users of Apple
>> devices, including iMovie, Garage Band, Mail, Safari, Passwords, Pages,
>> Numbers, Keynote, Music, Messages, Photos, Time Machine, etc. ... plus
>> the various Apple operating systems themselves.
> 
> There is a ton of "free software" for both iOS and for Android.
> 
> What's unique about iOS is that you can't re-use that free software.
> That's bad.

It would be...

...if it were true...

...but it's false.