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Re: What is the relationship between GCC and Cygnus / Red Hat?
Sorry to trouble you with one more message -- I know how welcome my
contributions are here, but I wanted to expand briefly on two points:
> There's no obvious good guys or bad guys in that history --
> but it's _interesting_. It was a major development in the
> history of free software.
My perception is that, post the egcs->steering committee transition,
the idea of creating NPOs for project governance of major FOSS
projects has become popular. I think that the egcs->sc history
helped to bring that about (even though the sc is not itself an NPO).
> Some of the reasons some people wanted that change were, in
> fact, related to commercial efforts (AFAICT).
Looking at people's email addresses, it appears that a substantial
subset of the Cygnus GCC hackers have moved on to other companies
where they continue to work on GCC. I speculate that the shift away
from old-style FSF project management to the sc helped to enable that
mobility.
-t