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And eventually Apple starts supporting LLVM and the rest is history. Less and less of GCC is being used by Apple these days.

And of course, LLVM is free and open source as well... just without the GPL.

And with proprietary frontends(like flash)

And I think that's fine with RMS — Apple didn't get GNU's work for free for their proprietary IDE and had to develop their own software.