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		Epskampie on Dec 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FUSE for macOS is no longer open source apple kept changing/breaking Api’s to try to kill vlc so that they could try make money of the paid version of the QuickTime player which then existed. I must admit it was just comments made by VLC devs, so it’s anecdotal.

saagarjha on Dec 11, 2019 [–]

VLC is on Apple’s “must not break list” and gets special checkfixes in the OS, FWIW.

enitihas on Dec 11, 2019 | [–]

Source?

saagarjha on Dec 11, 2019 | | [–]

NSWindowAllowsImplicitFullScreenDefaultValueFunction in AppKit.

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