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This headline grossly misstates the content of the post. Apple wanted a closed source front end that could be linked with the open source gcc internal/backend.
by bsiemon 15y ago
This headline grossly misstates the content of the post. Apple wanted a closed source front end that could be linked with the open source gcc internal/backend. At no point would the existing GCC code ever become proprietary under this flawed scheme.
- simcop2387 15y agoThis wasn't Apple at this time. This was after Jobs had been ousted and had gone with NeXT.
- ra 15y agoAlso note that RMS wrote this in 1993