[jlarocco]

> I read it to say that GCC is so open source that it cannot converge on a stable release. Further there isn't a non-commercial (aka free) incentive for making it stable, so it doesn't converge.

I don't see how not having a LTS version supports that argument. Lack of support for previous versions doesn't really imply anything about the stability of the past, present, or future releases. I think they're mostly orthogonal concepts.