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Re: We're out of tree codes; now what?
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. Moreover, one problem that is mentioned from
time to time is the difficulty to attract new volunteer contributors
for various reasons.
Since from a false premise anything may be concluded...
Cheers,
Manuel.
[*] Notwithstanding that most of them put extra effort and time than
the hours that they are paid for.