> Or if one want to be a bit conspiratorial, code churn is what the FSF relies upon to maintain its other freedoms. It's not even a conspiracy, at least in the

> Or if one want to be a bit conspiratorial, code churn is what the FSF relies upon to maintain its other freedoms. It's not even a conspiracy, at least in the case of gcc. rms has said outright that gcc's code is deliberately terrible, to keep people from building proprietary frontends on it. Hooray for freedom to tinker.