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invalid <address@is.invalid> writes:

> And it's all based on Robert Dewar's work that was paid for by
> U.S. grants funded by American Tax Dollars. The guy was a genius in
> more ways than one.
>
> This situation is not just bad, it's offensive.

Pretty sure that GCC was chosen for entirely practical reasons (who in
government would want to pay to re-write multiple code generators from
scratch?) which meant GPL.