owns is the wrong word. No need to redefine it to fit the sentence, they should have chosen a different word.
Re:An Apple ISA is coming
by geoff-codes on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @07:30AM
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Perhaps the word is 'pwn'?
Having exclusive rights on a strategic business brick is important when this brick is enough to give someone else a stronghold on the whole vertical market. Although having a good compilers is one of the many requirements in Apple's business model, it's neither the defining feature, nor what competitors miss in order to threaten Apple.
So yes, in this context, Apple non-exclusively owns LLVM.