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Re: We're out of tree codes; now what?
Manuel López-Ibáñez writes:
> On 23/03/07, Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr> wrote:
> >
> > GCC being vastly a volunteer project,
>
> Actually, if you monitored gcc-patches and the subversion commits for
> a while, you will realise that that statement is factually wrong. Most
> of the code comes from individuals that are paid to work in GCC [*] by
> Red Hat, Google, Sourceware, Suse, Sony, IBM, etc, as it happens in
> the Linux kernel as well.
In which case, the companies concerned, rather than the individuals,
are volunteers: they have no contractual obligation to the FSF. Marc
Espie's argument stands.
Andrew.