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as crazy as RMS may sound in his exchanges usually don't forget that some people didn't read past the first messages. read another message RMS responded here https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

that's in response to the offer llvm made to give hand the copyright over to the FSF and integrate llvm to gcc. I had long been wondering why there was a llvm-gcc on apple machines a couple revisions back.

basically he claims he didn't see the original llvm offer:

    >> "If people are seriously in favor of LLVM being a long-term part of GCC,
    >> I personally believe that the LLVM community would agree to assign the
    >> copyright of LLVM itself to the FSF and we can work through these
    >> details."

   > I am stunned to see that we had this offer.
   > Now, based on hindsight, I wish we had accepted it.
    
   >If I had seen it back then, I would not have had the benefit of
   > hindsight, but it would clearly have been a real possibility.  Nothing
   > would have ruled it out.
    
   > I wish I had known about the offer.



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