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Re: Describing commercial support on our website
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>, Ankur Gupta <ankur17 at gmail dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Ankur Gupta <ankurgupta at acmet dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:13:17 -0800
- Subject: Re: Describing commercial support on our website
- References: <6c33472e0711281608t37d0f9b6m71d5820d1765c766@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:08:26AM +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> On 29/11/2007, Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > Actually, I wanted to provide some examples, but I couldn't easily
> > > find a list of companies providing commercial support for GCC.
> > > Shouldn't we have such a list in the website in a prominent place?
> >
> > This is explained in the gcc/SERVICE file.
> >
>
> Perhaps we should have that link in our website + a list specific to GCC.
>
> By the way, the link is broken. The correct link seems to be
> http://www.fsf.org/resources/service
>
> I can send a patch, but I think it would be better if we linked to our
> own http://gcc.gnu.org/support page and from there to wherever the FSF
> wants us to link. That way we could include and update ourselves the
> information specific to gcc.
Unfortunately, that's an area that the FSF wants tight control over;
they would be especially cheesed off if we linked to a consultant's page
and the consultant also advertised his/her ability to support proprietary
compiler development.
But the page on fsf.org is outdated and mostly-useless; people are
unlikely to find it. It should be possible to do something better and
still meet the FSF's requirements (which mainly are that FSF sites don't
promote proprietary software or link to pages that do).