I do think RMS is complicit with the destruction of GCC though. I know his heart's in the right place about exporting the AST but it's just pushed all the exciting stuff (Rust, Emscripten, etc) to LLVM which is licensed for a tragedy of the commons.

On 20 September 2015 16:31:43 IST, rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
OHAI,

Dnia niedziela, 20 wrzeĊ›nia 2015 17:46:18 Georgi Guninski pisze:
 As all humans, RMS has something to be trolled about.

Ah, my pet peeve with RMS is his support for non-free (!) licenses on anything 
that is not software. Amazingly, I was able to convice him to change an -ND 
license to something else once, but that was... rather silly:
https://stallman.org/doggerel.html#IveBeenAnsweringMyEmail

I still have not given up, though! ;)

 Besides the GNU stuff, IMHO he is underestimated for GCC.

Absolutely.

 Without GCC, besides linux, likely neither *BSD nor
 Apple would exist in its present form.
 
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 </TROLL>

This, unfortunately, is slowly coming to an end, with llvm gaining more and 
more ground. I love competition, but I fear possible proprietarization of llvm 
and a large part of the FLOSS ecosystem:
http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/01/26/llvm.html

inb4 compiler wars

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