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>making it impossible to integrate it back into LLVM

Code getting open source is not impossible. Companies do it all of the time because it's expensive to rebase.




Dude you can't just quote a fraction of a sentence and then argue against that fragment. Read the whole sentence. The part about how "the vendor could make their toolchain proprietary" is kinda important.


My comment was about proprietary software being open sourced.


My comment was about forcing companies to not make proprietary software.




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