On Monday 03 July 2006 14:10, Anders Höckersten wrote: > Patrick, no offense, but before you start throwing paranoid accusations at > Microsoft employees on a public mailing list, why don't you check out what > those people actually work with? Simon Peyton-Jones and Simon Marlow are > well-publicised researchers working for Microsoft Research, and one of > their main accomplishments just so happens to be GHC, by far the most > popular Haskell compiler. GHC is most likely the compiler used to compile > the version of Darcs you are using, and it also happens to be free of > charge and open source (under a BSD-style license).
Ugh, what an unfortunate place of employment then. How does that even work? Doesn't the contract they sign to work at Microsoft prohibit them wokring on open source? -- Patrick McFarland || www.AdTerrasPerAspera.com "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
