> Which freedoms do you disagree with and why? > What freedoms are missing that you would like to see added? I am not so small a mind to be concerned with sem

> Which freedoms do you disagree with and why? > What freedoms are missing that you would like to see added? I am not so small a mind to be concerned with semantics debates and the definition of “freedom”. Purely in the sense of what I personally desire, as in rational egotism, I would wish for all software to exist for me free of charge, with all source code available, with a copious options system, and that it be written in a programming language I am competent in and follows the style guides I find easiest to reaed. That is a wish, not a moral dogma; moral dogmata are Stallman's domain and I consider any man who would seriously believe that things can be morally right or wrong to be of quæstionable rationality. > You are conflating GCC as free software with software created using GCC as a compiler. I'm doing no such thing; I'm simply pointing out that the G.C.C. would probably not be free software without the exception. > The runtime exception has been in place for quite a while and is part of the reason why GCC is very widely used. > I would argue that the four freedoms are also part of the reason why GCC has been so successful. I'm fairly certain it's the biggest reason is simply that it's a very good and gratis compiler.