From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 18 21:28:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F7B37B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA22120; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:28:32 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118222633.046bb550@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:28:27 -0700 To: Brad Knowles From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL rant number 31391 (was: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118184345.045f1d90@localhost> <20001119111646.C5877@echunga.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118142924.00cb6850@localhost> <20001119111646.C5877@echunga.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118184345.045f1d90@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:02 PM 11/18/2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > If you truly want to tilt at that windmill, I suggest you go off and write a BSD C compiler (and C++, and Fortran, and the debugger, and the complete development environment) that doesn't depend on any GPL code, and you'll be in your grave before me. You're planning to be in my grave later? ;-) Seriously: Linux was only started in the early 90's, and GCC in the 80's. There's no need to exceed one's lifespan to produce BETTER code, so long as there's a concerted effort to make FreeBSD free. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message