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Add a little more detail to the section about Objective-C Foundation in the README
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##### Why not make the existing Objective-C implementation of Foundation open source?
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The Objective-C runtime is not part of the Swift open source project. We can, however, use the open source CoreFoundation implementation. CF is written in C and does not require Objective-C.
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Foundation on Darwin is written primarily in Objective-C, and the Objective-C runtime is not part of the Swift open source project. CoreFoundation, however, is a portable C library and does not require the Objective-C runtime. It contains much of the behavior that is exposed via the Foundation API. Therefore, it is used on all platforms including Linux.
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##### How do I contribute?
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