NVIDIA benefits from LLVM at the expense of user freedom. That is not benefiting everyone. You, like many others, value convenience over freedom. The Dead Kennedys have an album entitled "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death". That title reminds me of the dominant mentality in the software industry.
You seem to have forgotten that computers exist solely for the purposes of making man's life more convenient. Any ideas of software freedom that get in the way of this convenience are bad for mankind. Therefore Stallman's ideas about software freedom are bad for mankind. LLVM is more popular because it is more convenient. It is more convenient because it is truly free, and not enslaved by a license that exalts the "rights of software" above all else.
The idea of imbuing an inanimate thing with rights that are restrictive to animate beings is philosophically offensive to any right-thinking individual.
Granted, the application of the adjective "free" to an inanimate thing like software is confusing. But the point of free software is to promote freedom for the users of the software. So it really is about freedom for animate beings after all.
