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Date:      Sat, 04 Jan 2003 13:16:03 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030104131212.03837e10@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3E172EF3.9060704@rogers.com>
References:  <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <200212312041.gBVKfr183480@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112015.026a5530@localhost>

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At 11:58 AM 1/4/2003, Mike Jeays wrote:

>GCC is a great gift to the world, 

No, it is not. It's an apple with a poison pill inside:
Richard Stallman's vicious and destructive agenda.

>and has made a huge difference to
>the development of open-source software.  

Yes, it has. It has made most such software dependent upon
a tool that is GPLed, which is a very bad thing.

>It can't be all that mediocre
>if it has destroyed the market for higher-quality compilers!

Not true at all. People will put up with mediocrity if it's
available at no cost. To the point where it drives out much 
better commercial products. 

--Brett Glass


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