We can bitch all we want about GPL but the truth of the matter is that as long as there are no BSD binary utilities (linker and assembler) all BSDs can be wiped of the face of the earth in a split of a second if the GNU people want that. It is amazing that so many years after the release 4.4. BSD light nobody in BSD camp have not had a need to rewrite complete tool chain. Fully functional PCC would be a great first step but the only people who have publicly acknowledged the real Achilles tendon of BSDs (GNU Binutils) are AerieBSD developers.
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