Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 18:10:25 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000318180821.03e7d550@localhost> In-Reply-To: <38D418CF.B12A75DE@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.2.2.20000317173928.040fec50@localhost> <4.2.2.20000317234800.03e7c380@localhost>
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At 05:01 PM 3/18/2000 , Thomas M. Sommers wrote: >How would the existence of a second free C compiler make it easier for >Borland to sell their compiler? The existence of a BSD-licensed compiler would allow companies to add value without starting from scratch. >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. Their C compiler isn't obsolete. >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. I think it's because people don't yet recognize the harm caused by having a GPLed product dominate a product category. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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