Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:01:19 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <38D418CF.B12A75DE@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.2.2.20000317173928.040fec50@localhost> <4.2.2.20000317234800.03e7c380@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > The fact that GCC does not have BSD-licensed competition is one > of the main reasons that there are few decent alternatives left > for non-Microsoft platforms. Borland seemed like a hopeful > possibility, but now they are GIVING THEIR COMPILER AWAY under > pressure from GCC users who claim that they'll scorn it > otherwise. > How would the existence of a second free C compiler make it easier for Borland to sell their compiler? And anyway, Borland has a history of opening up (giving away) "obsolete" products (in the Windows world, command line tools are for all practical purposes obsolete). There is, for instance, a port of TurboVision in the ports collection. I suspect that the reason there is no free alternative to GCC is that a C++ compiler is so hard to write that license considerations are not enough to motivate anyone to undertake the task. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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