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Re: Power/PowerPC RIOS/RIOS2 obsolescence
On 6/30/10, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> wrote:
>> GCC's mission is not to
>> support every system in a computer history museum. Older versions of
>> GCC created at the time of those systems still will work on those
>> systems.
>>
>
>
> This is an unfortunate attitude many people have in free software
> these days, especially big business contributors with profit-aligned
> motives.
As a not-for-profit gcc hacker: istm that it's the other way around.
Small groups of non-contributors with insignificant hobby projects,
trying to impose their ideals on foss projects. We see it all the time
on this list.
But perhaps you could share your technical arguments instead?
Especially counter-arguments against David's, which you conveniently
ignore?
Ciao!
Steven