On: Stallman: GPL ramifications and purpose

[bmcniel]

This headline grossly misstates the content of the post. Apple wanted a closed source front end that could be linked with the open source gcc internal/backend. At no point would the existing GCC code ever become proprietary under this flawed scheme.

[simcop2387 → bmcniel]

This wasn't Apple at this time. This was after Jobs had been ousted and had gone with NeXT.

[ra → simcop2387]

Also note that RMS wrote this in 1993