Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:40:11 +0200 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why Clang Message-ID: <AC6A916E-066B-4399-89E1-90C2394327E7@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20120621015237.GB58187@neutralgood.org> References: <402199FE-380B-41B6-866B-7D5D66C457D5@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <CAH3a3KWKNF5Bt-8=KgtbMh=rV6GfUO7OaeE6-SutxkcRe8cG3Q@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206191953280.8234@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20120621015237.GB58187@neutralgood.org>
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--Apple-Mail=_360EFF47-7B6A-45E1-9C78-C359A2936BCB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Le 21 juin 2012 =E0 03:52, kpneal@pobox.com a =E9crit : >=20 > All of this may seem stupid to a reasonable person outside of law. = I'll agree > that it probably does look stupid. But it is also the reality of the = legal > systems we must live with today. I can only praise kpneal for this very well argumented post. However = some remarks. The whole argument revolves around FUD, fear, uncertainty and doubt. But = there will never be any shortage of lawyers trying to spread FUD on any subject to = please their clients, and if companies "bend over" instead of fighting FUD they will = promptly be paralyzed. Last time a company tried to use such tactic against Linux, it did not = turn out a bright idea. Second, FreeBSD is not a commercial company, and while this = argument may have a merit for commercial sponsors of FreeBSD, it has zero bearing on FreeBSD = itself. If FreeBSD appears as a subsidiary of some commercial company (say Juniper) i am not sure = this will be good for its further development. This being said, i agree with you that the = FreeBSD binaries will not see a big performance degradation through the use of clang, so, as = long as gcc is in the ports to be used with performance critical stuff, it is no big deal. Anyways = as a long time FreeBSD user i have seen clang presented as an experiment by two or three = people, and then suddenly stuffed without any discussion in the base system, apparently for political = reasons that i don't share (i mean this stupid obsession of "GPL free" system, which has replaced = the previous focus on quality and performance). -- Michel Talon talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr --Apple-Mail=_360EFF47-7B6A-45E1-9C78-C359A2936BCB--
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