GNU/Communism

Linus B. Torvalds:

    GNU community that is an anomaly: virtually all users of GNU software and the GPL, under which my Linux kernel falls under, are unkempt, long-haired, beast-bearded dirty GNU hippies, and I am sick and tired of having to deal with them.

Linus actually hates GNU. :3

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FreeBSD and OpenBSD have already solved this problem. They're dropping GCC as soon as Clang/LLVM has matured.

And actual Linux distros like Debian (and Ubuntu) aren't far behind. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a situation where all GPLv3 software is cut from the major Linux distros, and forks of older GPLv2 software are brought up to speed.

And Clang/LLVM is maturing fast. Apple, Google, Cray, Adobe and others combined hired half of the C++0x and C1x ISO/IEC committee members to work on it. In two weeks during this last January, they implemented a dozen C++0x features, that took the GCC developers years to add. And the Clang developers did this while fixing hundreds of C99 and C++98/03 compiler bugs in preparation for the upcoming major launch.

Clang/LLVM is a fucking breath of fresh air compared to GCC.