Depends on one's perspective. Not long ago the meme de jour was that open-source transparency & fork-ability was the ultimate protection to corporate evils. B

Depends on one's perspective. Not long ago the meme de jour was that open-source transparency & fork-ability was the ultimate protection to corporate evils. By the standard you're setting, the only safe compiler would be one you wrote yourself and revealed to no one. What compilers do you use?