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Where are the RMSs of the world?

Where are the RMSs of the world?

Posted Sep 29, 2013 0:06 UTC (Sun) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048)
In reply to: Where are the RMSs of the world? by khim
Parent article: 30 years of GNU

> Projects are either replaced (GCC with LLVM

Which is being stuffed full of patents by qualcomm and apple by their employees (some of whom were major GCC contributors while they worked with other employers…), which _no one_ receives a patent license to...

If LLVM/Clang were under the Apache license or had a contributor agreement that released access to patents under free software compatible terms you might have something to say there, but as it's currently licensed I think that we're just seeing a latently proprietary grow in strength... which isn't good news, but it's not something new.


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