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Re: Red Hat/Cygnus merger & GCC
>>>>> Michael Harnois <mharnois@willinet.net> writes:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:34:46 -0700, Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> said:
>> I'm sure most of you have heard about the Red Hat/Cygnus merger
>> that was announced on Monday.
>> I'd just like to reassure everyone that the merger should not
>> have any significant impact on GCC development, either on a day
>> to day level or long term.
> Sort of like having Microsoft as one player among many. "No, we won't
> have any undue influence or control, how could you even begin to think
> such a thing?"
Excuse me, does Microsoft release their code under the GPL? Did they set
up a Windows steering committee where they had <50% representation to
oversee Windows development, to safeguard against giving themselves an
undue advantage? Did they break temporarily with the FSF in order to make
their code and development process *MORE* open to the public?
What possible parallels could you draw between us and them other than that
both are successful software companies?
Jason