On 27 June 2013 14:17, Joakim <joa...@airpost.net> wrote: > As I said earlier, I'm done with this debate. > > There is no point talking to people who make blatantly ignorant statements > like, "Binary blobs are the exception rather than the rule in Linux, and > many hardware vendors would flat out say 'no' to doing any support on them." > This assertion is so ignorant of the facts, it's laughable. :)
Fact: That quote you find laughable isn't my opinion. It was what Linus said during a Q&A after one of his talks (at least, if I remember it correctly ;). > I have no idea what to make of Iain's talking about gdc or that it is a > "one-man team" > in response to my prediction that ldc could go closed/paid and obsolete dmd: > there is absolutely no connection between the topics. > I suppose that was my ignorance there, I assumed that you at least *knew* a little bit of history behind the development of D1/D2. I'm sure people would raise their eyebrows and sigh to have the age old question "why don't we just drop development of DMD and move it to X?" asked again. :o) -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';