Dude you can't just quote a fraction of a sentence and then argue against that fragment. Read the whole sentence. The part about how "the vendor could make their toolchain proprietary" is kinda important.
Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15
by charcircuit on Friday April 11, 2025 @02:32AM
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My comment was about proprietary software being open sourced.
Code getting open source is not impossible. Companies do it all of the time because it's expensive to rebase.