Plugging into GCC

Well, it would be a fork in that it wouldn't necessarily follow the FSF's intentions for direction. For example, a version that supported plugins written to an API that isn't derived from gcc and is BSD-licensed (and could be supported by icc, etc) could become the de facto current branch on technical merit (if it eliminated a lot of the weird quirks from what a significant class of developers had to deal with), despite the fact that this result is exactly what the FSF wants to avoid.