Re: Describing commercial support on our website

["Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>]

On Nov 29, 2007 11:13 PM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> 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 But the page on fsf.org is outdated and mostly-useless; people are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).

So maybe we should instead drop the SERVICE file completely.

Richard.