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> Please don't ask people to run non-free software to participate in your open source community.

Doesn't that imply the end of all macOS related projects? Not that I'm complaining, I'm actually very surprised by the amount of effort individuals put in to open source efforts (such as homebrew) to support a proprietary closed platform like macOS.

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I didn't think about this case, but obviously a project related to a proprietary software will require running this software and that seems reasonable.

I guess I'm thankful to people making open source software for closed platforms so they are available should I ever be exposed to these platforms.

It's not this surprising, people can see the value of open source but be okay (or forced) to use non free software.

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