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		shadowfox on May 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Architecture of Open Source Applications: LLVM Interesting. Is there any source for this speculation?

prodigal_erik on May 31, 2011 | [–]

This isn't a very controversial theory:

http://lwn.net/Articles/259196/

http://lwn.net/Articles/301135/

schrototo on May 31, 2011 | | [–]

Wow, so they're actively preventing progress for political reasons? Why don't they try to solve their ideological licensing problems with, I don't know, licensing solutions? Crippling the underlying technology doesn't seem like a very hacker thing to do...

Someone on May 31, 2011 | [–]

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC_Plugins

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