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GNU's healthy now, and will soon be moreso

GNU's healthy now, and will soon be moreso

Posted Sep 28, 2013 6:39 UTC (Sat) by did447 (guest, #49454)
In reply to: GNU's healthy now, and will soon be moreso by drag
Parent article: 30 years of GNU

> I think this was extraordinarily destructive because while you were making life hard for third party proprietary developers from 'stealing' GCC features by working around copyright restrictions, but it was also entirely destructive to any third party open source developer wanting to use GCC features.

Absolutely, if you read compiler conferences papers most (all?) use LLVM now, even when they release their own code as GPL3 software!


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