However, as you seem determined to do so, one might make the further observation that development of GCC from its inception was funded by donations of developers own time, plus some funding from private sources solicited by rms. LLVM, otoh, with its permissive license only got off the ground after massive government subsidy of preliminary work at University of Illinois.

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Which must in no way be interpreted as implying that the sole reason for LLVM's belated entry on the open source compiler scene was corporate fear of such permissive license. Indeed, given LVM's academic provenance, such BSD-style licensing is undoubtedly the most appropriate choice. I personally welcome both LLVM and Apple's furtherance of the project.

As a further irrelevancy, Apple -- to no apparent detriment -- is the current owner and maintainer of CUPS.

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