Of Bounties and Mercenaries

[Daniel Berlin]

On Apr 2, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:

>     I made a serious (with tongue a tad in cheek) set of suggestions
>     specific to GCC, and in response to comments made herein by others.
>     There is a sincere need to address these issues, which are very
>     GCC-specific; few other packages have the breadth and depth of GCC,
>     across platforms and users. Therefore, this seems to be an 
> appropriate
>     venue.
>
> You are totally ignoring the fact that there are many people who *are* 
> paying
> to have GCC maintained and a number of companies very happy to receive
> such payments.  But the point remains that the issues you are raising 
> are
> financial and political and this is a *technical* list.
>
It's not completely clear from the description that this is offtopic:

	• 	gcc  is a high volume list for general development discussions 
about GCC.  Anything relevant to the development or testing of GCC and 
not  covered by other mailing lists is suitable for discussion here.

This could be considered "relevant to the development of GCC, and not 
covered by other mailing lists"

Not that i care (hey, if it makes people feel better to put $5 towards 
fixing a given bug, what do i care?), even though i'd be the one to 
implement any such suggestions.
--Dan