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There’s actually plenty of open source apps that are objectively far superior to their proprietary counterparts, especially lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s actually plenty of open source apps that are objectively far superior to their proprietary counterparts, especially lately.<\/p>\n

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