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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: community-based compiler (was Re: What exactly is the licensing
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:16:24 +0000 (UTC)
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David Botton <david@botton.com> wrote:
>> It's more that the community has never been allowed to.
> 
> What is stopping it? I have not gotten in to compiler development, but I
> would assume anyone can send patches to the FSF

People have sent patches to AdaCore and ended getting slagged off ending up
in massive arguments. Patches then rejected. Heard this from the person it
happened to.

Any question I have raised re certain things have been met with silence or
one liners explaining nothing and therefore being useless.