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Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Cc: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com, bonzini at gnu dot org, clattner at apple dot com, dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mark at codesourcery dot com, rguenther at suse dot de, stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:34:58 EDT
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
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> I'm referring to the customers where I've personally spent time
> discussing tools issues. Obviously there are exceptions and
> organizations where other motivations come in to play, or are so big
> that they have sub-organizations which look at things from totally
> different viewpoints. And (of course) I won't claim to have met every
> organization of importance, far from it.
Have you had the experience of talking to large contractors like
Boeing, Lockheed, Rockwell, or Raytheon about Free Software? That's
yet ANOTHER experience (often involving lawyers who think they know
what they're talking about but really don't).