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Posted Sep 13, 2009 17:12 UTC (Sun) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: Contributions by njs
Parent article: Microsoft launches open source foundation (Linux-Watch)

And now we're going back to the bad old days of vendor lock-in with Clang and LLVM.

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Posted Sep 13, 2009 18:51 UTC (Sun) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

How is 'back to the bad old days'? Clang and LLVM are completely open source.

Although so far GCC still outperforms them...

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Posted Sep 13, 2009 19:02 UTC (Sun) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

Yes, but organizations that extend them don't need to contribute their changes back into the compiler, which will allow them to create a universe of proprietary plug-ins and even forks. "Sure, you can develop for our platform using open-source tools, but if you want to use the latest version of our language, you'll have to fork out for our plug-in".