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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
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On 13.11.14 09:41, Harry Bolger wrote:
> On 2014-11-13, Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> wrote:
>> On 13.11.14 08:40, Harry Bolger wrote:
>>> That's now. I suspect once world domination draws near they will pull that
>>> trick out of their sleeve and it will be too late for the lemmings to do
>>> anything about it.
>>
>> You're joking, right?
>>
>
> About what? Stalemate has already acknowledged he wants this. He just
> couldn't shove it down people's throats far enough at that time.

Right. And a single citizen cannot survive a move against most of his
supporters, including commercial supporters like Redhat or Oracle or
AdaCore, who make a living in the enterprise and military spaces.
The powers insinuated are even less if there is the prospect of moving
towards differently licensed open source LLVM. I don't think the FSF
is sufficiently suicidal for that.

>  All that proprietary gcc code
> they wrote over the past twenty years thinking it was C won't compile or run
> on anything else and they'll be locked in.

I recall that many GNU-isms are well supported by major C compilers,
including Intel, and also that the same argument could apply in reverse
when trying to port C or Fortran away form Intel-isms.

Apple, OTOH, have been doing exactly what you have outlined, a couple
of times, and they are doing well.

> Is this such a difficult proposition for you?

Not difficult to decipher as a fine specimen of FUD, by all standards
I can just now think of. For example, completeness.