> I don't think that employer interests have led to any significant > conflicts between employer interests and project interests. It's sort > of hard to say, though, because in effect employer interests have > become project interests.
And indeed many people who've been working on GCC for a long time (including you and me) have moved from one organization to another during that time (sometimes more than once). > That said, from a certain perspective it would be reasonable to call > the EGCS split a conflict between employer interests and project > interests. Although many people supported the EGCS split, it was > driven initially by Cygnus. But that could also have been viewed as a conflict between FSF interests and GCC project interests. As you say, it's hard to point to a specific conflict because, for the most part, all the interests aligned: everybody wanted the best compiler we could product.
