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discardable_dan
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An elegy for GNU and RMS
Couldn't someone with sufficient technical knowledge just write an AST dumper for GCC and release it as a patch?
Isn't that the point of Free Software?
dralley
on Oct 2, 2022
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And they did, but RMS refused to allow any code which did that to be added to either Emacs or GCC.
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Isn't that the point of Free Software?