From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 5 8:52:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5516A37B405 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from electricrain.com (electricrain.com [64.71.143.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B0343EDC for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:52:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fuzzy@electricrain.com) Received: (qmail 32664 invoked by uid 540); 5 Jan 2003 16:52:02 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 08:52:02 -0800 From: Chris Doherty To: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bgcc, an idea Message-ID: <20030105165202.GA32357@zot.electricrain.com> Reply-To: chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net References: <20030105111541.DB70E1A0D0@www.fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030105111541.DB70E1A0D0@www.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: XEmacs X-Koan: mu. Organization: The Inside Foundation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:15:41AM -0800, Brett Glass said: > After the thread on GPL'd parts of FreeBSD, specially the compiler, I've > decided to contribute my bit to the FreeBSD community. I'm proud to > preset bgcc, 'The Brett Glass compiler collection', released under the > BSD license, of course. As a lot of you know, I'm a professional > programmer who does mostly embedded systems work, and the need for a > truly free (free as in Richard Stallman blows dead goats) has arised many > times. before anyone gets all excited, the real Brett Glass appears to be Brett Glass and the given URL is a 404. probably the same bitter, unemployed tech worker with too much free time (I do sympathize there) who's been doing poor impersonations of Matt Dillon. I'm also pretty sure the real Brett Glass wouldn't say "arised". please don't feed the troll. c not that anyone gung-ho on a flame war is going to read farther into the thread than the original post, and the irony of writing an email to stop emails doesn't escape me... ------------------------------- Chris Doherty chris [at] randomcamel.net "I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our provisions now, so we won't have so much to carry." -- A. A. Milne ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message