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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <15571@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:45:59 GMT
- References: <15540@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Nov19.083114.14306@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >Not a great loss... The only thing that REALLY bugs me, is the way Sun is
- >using the FSF (gcc), to provide a compiler (Which happens to be better than
- >their own, at least at 4.1.x) for 'free'.
- >
- >Yo Sun, how about providing that outdated 4.1.{2,3} source for free on the
- >net? Common, what have you got to loose?
-
- Err, if you're referring, by "that outdated 4.1.{2,3} source", to the
- Sun compiler - the very compiler which you say is *inferior* to GCC
- (which I can easily believe it is) - then why do you *want* them to
- provide it? Aren't you better off with GCC?
-