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A few years from now, when you want to hack on some new gizmo and you find out that the toolchain is a pile of proprietary blobs that only work on Windows and a
by beering 11y ago
A few years from now, when you want to hack on some new gizmo and you find out that the toolchain is a pile of proprietary blobs that only work on Windows and an old version of RHEL, you can thank the "pro-user" supporters of clang and its non-copyleft license.
(I think this is already happening with GPU toolchains but that's not my field.)
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoI mistakenly downvoted you, FWIW. This is happening with Apple. Apple were so enraged about a GPL compliance lawsuit that they pored tons of resources into LLVM, perhaps just out of spite.
- spiralpolitik 11y agoThey were so spiteful that they offered to license the whole thing under the GPL. But because RMS uses an e-mail client written in the last century he missed the offer. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00594.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
- tzs 11y agoNonsense. Since I've covered this before in detail, I'll just link to previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9737230#up_9740994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9737230#up_9740994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9474358#up_9475356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9474358#up_9475356