* Mark Galassi <m...@galassi.org> [2020-05-10 19:37]: > > Dear GNU folk, > > Long ago I had a conversation with a fellow long-time GNU developer. We > were talking about how we had come upon free software in the 1980s and > early 1990s. > > We were discussing how sometimes we had felt exhilerated by, for > example, the coming of gcc, or gcc-2, which were so technically > excellent. > > And then we both commented that we had eventually reached the conclusion > that the usefulness of gcc, or the linux kernel, or other great > products, had come mostly because of the freedom that comes with s/w, > rather than the fact that at the moment it is the coolest s/w around. > > Years latere we then noticed that, for example, gcc had played leapfrog > with various proprietary compilers, passing in and out of the top > performance slot (that's not true anymore). But sticking with depending > on tools that offer freedom turns out to be both ethical and deeply > strategic in the long run.
That is great that freedom is in the first place. Now even more needed! Jean
