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Not exactly.

I explicitly noted that they are no longer FOSS, but I beleive its wrong to call them "closed-source".

If parent had said "they are no longer open source", I wouldn't have commented this at all, since "open source" and FOSS are essentially synonyms. But the antonym of FOSS/open source is not "closed source".



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