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[Cathal (Phone)]

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 at hackerspace.pl> wrote:
>OHAI,
>
>Dnia niedziela, 20 września 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.
>> 
>> <TROLL>
>> (...)
>> </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
>
>-- 
>Pozdrawiam,
>Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
>
>Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147
>GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147

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