On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>wrote:

> John Yates writes:
>
>  > RMS may have an inflated sense of the extent to which the greater
>  > compiler community (those developing and those using compilers)
>  > value gcc over clang / llvm.
>

It might have been clearer if I had said the "open source compiler
community".

RMS doesn't care about "greater communities", AFAICT.  He cares about
> the free software community (more or less, the GPL-using community),
> and about preserving a haven for freedom for all users.
>

At RMS's behest emacs used GPL3 bzr instead of GPL2 git.  Now he has
relented.  Would he still have relented were git were BSD?

/john