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Re: Describing commercial support on our website
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:53:04PM +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> On 29/11/2007, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Well, I don't get why we could not require the same. I am just talking
> about taking the subset of that page that is GCC specific and put it
> on its own page in our webserver. And perhaps give more relevance to
> those companies that are actively involved in GCC developement.
We could probably get approval for something like this. There might
be conflict-of-interest issues, if the maintainer of the document also
works for a company with a high position on the list, but that could be
solved.
But the problem with ordering based on contributions is that people
will then fight over whether company A or company B has contributed
more; also, people who do their homework will know about, say,
CodeSourcery's role in GCC even if we sort the list by alphabetical
order. I'd rather avoid those kind of judgment calls.