Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jul 2007 13:48 UTC, submitted by Moochman
Intel "Intel announced today that they're open-sourcing their cross-platform Thread Building Blocks 2.0 (TBB) template library. While the company contributes code to open-source project like the Linux kernel and drivers, the opening of TBB marks the first time that Intel has taken a commercial tool and open-sourced it, making it Intel's largest open-source commitment to date."
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Intel compiler
by sappyvcv on Wed 25th Jul 2007 14:58 UTC
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What would it mean for GNU/GPL3 if intel also released their compiler as open source under GPL2? gcc is the biggest hurdle to anyone not using the gnu tools.