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Re: GCC 3.4.0 build failed on interix3
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:09:28AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf@alum.bu.edu> writes:
>>Do you really want to rehash this argument again? The point is that it
>>is "separate" and that it is "purchased". GNU tools were being used to
>>help the sale of a separate proprietary component of Microsoft NT.
>
>To be honest, the availability of GCC is far more important to some
>proprietary *NIX vendors than to Microsoft. You can get away with no C
>compiler on Windows, but on *NIX systems, it's *much* harder.
>
>So I think this is a non-issue.
Sigh. Why are you even bothering to debate this? How many times do I
have to say it is a non-issue? The last I checked the "Interix" package
was available for a free download.
>The ubiquitous availability of GCC is more important for the process of
>Free Software Enlightenment than the freedom of GCC itself.
Ok, then using your logic, gcc should still be available for U/WIN, too.
cgf