Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:48:09 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010531224653.00e31c40@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3B170339.C1F6ED0A@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010531150115.00be5ee0@localhost> <20010531124519.SSJB28488.mta10.onebox.com@onebox.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010531150115.00be5ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010531160004.04a02910@localhost>
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At 08:51 PM 5/31/2001, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: >> Not so. GCC has killed many technically superior compilers. > >Had gcc been under a BSD license, it would have been just as deadly. Not so. Companies could have stayed several steps ahead of it but retained near-perfect compatibility. (This works better for tools such as compilers than it does for operating systems.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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