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It's a different market segment for sure, but at my company we spent considerable engineering resources migrating the codebase away from a proprietary embedded toolchain to gcc. The toolchain vendor's licensing scheme was expensive and annoying, and had no chance of sustainably scaling with the company's growth. They weren't willing to negotiate, and so they priced themselves out of relevance permanently. Maybe they thought we were bluffing?


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