I guess the thinking when they got started was that this FOSS stuff was for smelly hippies and not serious use. And once the world had converted to Itanium, ha

I guess the thinking when they got started was that this FOSS stuff was for smelly hippies and not serious use. And once the world had converted to Itanium, having to buy Intel compilers to wring decent performance out of it, would have given Intel another big revenue stream. In other news, the Intel compiler suite has been recently refactored on top of clang&llvm. How the world turns..