&gt; it&#x27;s entirely reasonable for him to say that other developers don&#x27;t talk about freedom (as he means it) - because they don&#x27;t.<p>This is complete nonsense.  Clang is replacing GCC in many BSD-licensed projects exactly because they feel it is more free than GCC.  You don&#x27;t have to agree that they are right, but saying they aren&#x27;t talking about it is obnoxious and false.