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Re: GCC's hardware requirements - Where is the freedom? [was: Re:gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal]

From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
To: Bernd Jendrissek <berndj at prism dot co dot za>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Matthias Benkmann <msb at winterdrache dot de>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:52:45 +0100
Subject: Re: GCC's hardware requirements - Where is the freedom? [was: Re:gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal]
Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
References: <19D7D955-4AF7-11D8-8143-000393A6D2F2@physics.uc.edu> <20040120091956.GA11711@prism.co.za>

Bernd Jendrissek wrote:

When I start FSF South Africa in 400 years, do you want me to tell the
kids in Khayelitsha's (a shanty town on the outskirts of Cape Town,
suffice it to say that people there are, er, poor) schools that they
must just get themselves a 17THz 800EB machine themselves, since, after
all, they have their "freedom" to use, modify, and redistribute the GCC
code (that they can't afford to use)?

Oops, Khayelitsha, the world is small. Up to five years ago our local church supported a community project there ...

Good point !
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References:
- Re: GCC's hardware requirements - Where is the freedom? [was: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal]
  - From: Andrew Pinski
- Re: GCC's hardware requirements - Where is the freedom? [was: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal]
  - From: Bernd Jendrissek

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