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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by teddyh on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @09:36AM (#37321958)
Reportedly, LLVM, while initially successful, has severely slowed down lately, with many historical contributing companies abandoning LLVM to focus on their own company-specific languages. So LLVM may no longer be the beacon of permissive licensing that it once seemed to be.
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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by CoastalCoder on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:47AM (#37322947)
Could you elaborate on this?

It's the first I've heard of it, but maybe I'm just too out of the loop.

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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by teddyh on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:19AM (#37323520)
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32924033>
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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by Scoring6931 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:39AM (#37323815)
Is your source a random person on the Internet?

I work daily with LLVM and haven't noticed any slowdown in contributions by employees from Google or Apple.

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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by teddyh on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:49AM (#37323958)
I seem to recall seeing mentions elsewhere, but this was all I could find. However, as I don’t have any first-hand knowledge myself, I’ll gladly yield to your superior experience.
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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by dagmx on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:15AM (#37323461)
Afaik the only notable departure has been Google for Carbon, but afaik even they use llvm as the backend. I believe the only negative consequence has been to clang not llvm itself.
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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by teddyh on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:27AM (#37323641)
It could be that I am conflating Clang with LLVM.
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