Re:RMS Feels There's “A Systematic Effort to Attack GNU Pack...
by willglynn on Saturday February 07, 2015 @10:47PM
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Stallman here wrote:
If GNU packages do not support each other, it will be easier
for many of them to fail.
This reminds me of a recent article describing his objections to work towards exporting the AST from GCC for use in Emacs:
http://lwn.net/Articles/629259/
Re:RMS Feels There's “A Systematic Effort to Attack GNU Pack...
by anonbanker on Saturday February 07, 2015 @11:58PM
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After reading HN for a while, I have to agree with him. GPL'd software is being "phased-out" in favor of software that can be more easilly-exploited by corporations. LLVM is currently the best option of this.
Sadly, gcc is less modern than llvm, which means it's failing on it's quality rather than it's license. And the market is beginning to reflect that.
Re:RMS Feels There's “A Systematic Effort to Attack GNU Pack...
by x0ra on Sunday February 08, 2015 @10:42PM
(#9019626)
Well, RMS shot his own foot with the GPLv3. While the GPLv2 is making its way in corporations, the GPLv3 is generally a show-stopper in itself, even if the licensed software is the best.
Sadly, gcc is less modern than llvm, which means it's failing on it's quality rather than it's license. And the market is beginning to reflect that.