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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by saagarjha on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @04:17PM (#17612401)
Which was probably one of the reasons why they ended up writing LLVM.
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by koffiezet on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:28AM (#17678666)
The dropping of GCC and adopting LLVM is directly related to the pending switch to GPLv3 of GCC.

If there's one thing companies don't like, it's uncertainty - and the whole GPLv3 discussion gave them exactly that. They needed an alternative - and placed their bets on the more liberally licensed LLVM project.

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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by davidgay on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:03PM (#17612783)
LLVM was a UIUC project.
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by saagarjha on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:37PM (#17613119)
Ok, hiring the project lead early in development and steering the project towards Apple's goals, then.
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by kps on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:53AM (#17617943)
Don't forget RMS's refusal to accept patches to gcc to run on the Mac.
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