The point is that in order for people using windows to come over to use Linux it is necessary to provide this software on Windows as well, making the transition easier. Now this software should be able to be compiled using a 100% free software toolchain like MinGW, [...]
MinGW requires Windows, so it is not 100% free software. When using a non-free software system, you can never have a 100% free tool-chain, since it requies non-free software to work. By they way, would you like to help the GNU project sort out the confusion that Linux is a operating system? The system you are calling `Linux' is one that we started writting more than 20 years, and we named it GNU. Linux is a important of many GNU variants, but it is not the name of the system. Please see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more information. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
