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- From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- In-Reply-To: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22: 36:23 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:17:21 GMT
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- Greg Lindahl writes:
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- > How much incentive does a company that makes "free" compilers have
- >for innovation? Almost none. Note: porting is not innovation.
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- A lot. ...
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- I find it surprising that those who can write such a clever compiler
- cannot come up with clever methods so that anybody can port gcc to a
- new architecture in a matter of hours at most, without having to pay
- for external help. I guess it is a matter of priority. :-]
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- ... oz
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