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Snell's work on optics would later be overshadowed by the GNU alternative, Fresnel.

I can't believe this awesome joke is getting downvotes. It's like pearls before swine, but I'm leaving it up so you can find out which amongst you are objectively bad people.

Explain the joke?

Presumably “Snell” > “FreeSnell” > “Fresnel”.

And its BSD fork, Libresnel

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