Re: Swift is now open source (Apache 2 License)

[Svetlana A. Tkachenko]

> GitHub still uses Git, which is open source.

> The rest is just a website. Do you require the backend source code for
> every website you visit?

The burden of using proprietary backend is on them.

The GitHub frontend is proprietary. I use LibreJS and when I open a
user's page at GitHub, the contributions chart doesn't load, for
example. When I found this, I closed the site and did not use it.

More information:
- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
- http://web.archive.org/web/20150421174818/http://libreboot.org/github/

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