The article is full of misrepresentations. First off, GCC was written from scratch (because the pastel compiler had some design issues), which is evidenced <i>in the quote the author provides</i>. However, the whole thing reads as a &quot;we&#x27;d be better off without Stallman&quot; piece, using words like &quot;tired&quot;, *exhausted&quot; and claiming that because Richard didn&#x27;t write any papers on compilers that he must&#x27;ve not done many new things while writing GCC.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why the author seems to have a grudge against Stallman, but I&#x27;d invite them to reconsider.