On Saturday, 4 January 2003 at 13:58:59 -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > Brett Glass wrote: > >> At 07:05 AM 1/1/2003, Cliff Sarginson wrote: >> >>> Let's stop kicking Richard Stallman. He has his own agenda. >> >> It should remain his own. >> >>> But GCC is why you can compile FreeBSD. >> >> No, it's not. You can compile FreeBSD because it's written in >> C. GCC just happens to be the tool that comes in the package (which >> is a shame, IMHO; it's not a very good compiler). >> >>> Any of you ever tried to write a compiler ? >> >> Yes -- for a living. But I've moved on to other pursuits, because >> GCC has sufficiently destroyed the market that it is not possible >> to make a living writing compilers. Quality doesn't matter; a >> mediocre GPLed product precludes the release of good commercial >> ones. > > GCC is a great gift to the world, and has made a huge difference to > the development of open-source software. It can't be all that > mediocre if it has destroyed the market for higher-quality > compilers!
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