[vonbladet]

> Today one developer can create incredible tools using Clang/LLVM coda-base and release it as open-source or if he wants as closed source. This is just impossible with GCC.

By design.

> And yes License matters, GPL just does not allow to use GCC in most cases.

By design.

[coldcode]

At that rate GCC will eventually die in obsolescence. By design, apparently.

[lucian1900]

And esr is saying that perhaps it is (no longer) a good design.