From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 21 15:23:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8EC837B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3776743F18 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:23:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0183.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.183] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18b7kF-0004Ef-00; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:23:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3E2DD631.BAAFC804@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:22:25 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Reko Turja Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenWatcom (was Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!)) References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030119130825.00b21ee0@localhost><4.3.2.7.2.20030119133833.00e422f0@localhost><200301201620.37863.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au><3E2B89EC.4000107@kanga.org> <005801c2c174$05513390$0a06a8c0@reko> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a47ba4ef7a0abebd1f4053b9beac31832f387f7b89c61deb1d350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Reko Turja wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote > > GCC's way of handling inline assembler code is in no way unique, as > > anyone who had the pleasure of using Watcom C/C++ will testify. > > Speaking of Watcom, the OpenWatcom project has progressed to 1.0 and at > the moment already has some sort of support for Alpha CPU's as well as > Linux. And at the present there is bit of talk on OW newsgroups > concerning where to add FreeBSD headers & libraries. But AFAIK there are > no BSD developers in the project yet... > > More info can be found on their website www.openwatcom.org http://openwatcom.org/license_info/open_watcom_lic.html Oversimplified: 1) Similar to GPL, but... 2) Better written, to eliminate most GPL loopholes 3) Adds a patent grant 4) No opt-out on subsequent versions of the license, which means Sybase can change terms on existing code, going forward -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message