Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop piles the pressure on Microsoft (FSM)

The Intel compiler (ICC) is closed source.  It's really quite simple.  If 
they don't respect my rights (as expressed in the FSF's four freedoms), I 
don't trust them; if I don't trust them, their code doesn't go on my box.  
(Yes, it's their hardware, but that's different, and at least it's a 
relatively open spec.)

So even if gcc was an order of magnitude slower, I'd still be using either 
it or some other open compiler.  Of course, there'd be little point in my 
purchasing the hardware in that case, then.

Even for those who will use ICC, however, at least according to a recent 
thread on the topic on the Gentoo-dev list, it won't compile everything, 
and there's additional complexity when using a mixed-compiled environment 
due to imperfect "impedance matching".

The sig I use on the lists is relevant here:

-- 
Duncan
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman