Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 19th Nov 2005 08:26 UTC, submitted by resistor
In an email to the GCC development mailing list, one of the main developers of LLVM revealed that his recent employment at Apple has been focused on integrating LLVM with GCC, and is now proposing a long-term merge of the two projects.
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2005-07-06
"The only way Apple could have success here would be to fork gcc, call it like, er, "agcs" and improve it so drastically that the mainstream is eventually forced to merge-up and include their desired backend on that route."
On a side note, OpenBSD has rolled their own modified version of GCC for a long time now as they include ProPolice in their version. On the other hand, they're still stuck on version 2.95.3. Then again, I heard that the GCC people now were considering including ProPolice, so there just might be a chance of seeing technological advancement get the upper hand of politics once in a while.
[Correction: They're mostly stuck on 2.95-3. Some architectures have a more recent 3.x version of GCC.]
Edited 2005-11-19 11:08