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Re:RMS Feels There's “A Systematic Effort to Attack GNU Pack... by anonbanker on Saturday February 07, 2015 @11:58PM (#9016462)
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.

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Re:RMS Feels There's “A Systematic Effort to Attack GNU Pack... by rylee on Sunday February 08, 2015 @11:02AM (#9017545)
It's being phased out in favor of software that's better.
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Re:RMS Feels There's “A Systematic Effort to Attack GNU Pack... by yuhong on Sunday February 08, 2015 @02:27PM (#9018200)
Not always, look at samba vs smbx.
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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.
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Re:RMS Feels There's “A Systematic Effort to Attack GNU Pack... by anonbanker on Monday February 09, 2015 @10:56PM (#9025305)
GNU was doing just fine without corporations for a long time.
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