On: The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped...

[saagarjha]

Which was probably one of the reasons why they ended up writing LLVM.

[koffiezet → saagarjha]

The dropping of GCC and adopting LLVM is directly related to the pending switch to GPLv3 of GCC.

If there's one thing companies don't like, it's uncertainty - and the whole GPLv3 discussion gave them exactly that. They needed an alternative - and placed their bets on the more liberally licensed LLVM project.

[davidgay → saagarjha]

LLVM was a UIUC project.

[saagarjha → davidgay]

Ok, hiring the project lead early in development and steering the project towards Apple's goals, then.

[kps → saagarjha]

Don't forget RMS's refusal to accept patches to gcc to run on the Mac.