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Is this really OpenSource?

Posted Oct 25, 2003 10:07 UTC (Sat) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)
In reply to: Is this really OpenSource? by TeeJay
Parent article: Alias-i Goes Open Source with LingPipe Natural Language Processing Tools

GCC is open source. But I can compile it with an non-open source compiler, I can edit it in Visual Studio and play it through Dragon NaturalSpeaking. You can't do that with the data, so it's not open source.

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