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I think creating walled gardens and artificial barriers is always a mistake. This is the perfect example. Intentionally crippling a GNU project is absurd.
by nextos 12y ago
I think creating walled gardens and artificial barriers is always a mistake. This is the perfect example. Intentionally crippling a GNU project is absurd.
- phkahler 12y ago>> I think creating walled gardens and artificial barriers is always a mistake. This is the perfect example. Intentionally crippling a GNU project is absurd. I agree, and I'm sad to see it happened with the flagship software of the GNU project.
- nextos 12y agoIndeed, I think that as much as I love GNU and sympathize with most of Stallman's POVs, he got it wrong here. Crippling GCC just to prevent some undesirable use cases at the expense of slowing down his own community is not the way to go. LLVM has made many amazing things possible.