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Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Subject: Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:01:53 +0200
- CC: pthomas at suse dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005210931310.1320-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Toon Moene wrote:
> > I do not see where we infringe on that freedom.
>
> I do not think anybody infringes on their freedom. They have, after all,
> the freedom to ignore the FSF completely. As does anybody else.
>
> It's good that nobody blames them. Although even that is not what I
> thought the sense of the discussion in question was: it sounded like
> people _did_ indeed blame them to some degree. I wanted to bring up the
> fact that people _should_ question the FSF too. Not just assume that they
> can do no evil.
Well, questioning that is OK with me - we *are* a democracy, no ?
It's just that I didn't really feel that you were "questioning" - but
just *accusing*.
For that, you need more meaty material ...
Cheers,
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