> To many community members *gratis* doesn't mean > anything as long as it > is proprietary and the status can change as and when > a corporate > pleases.
That's just too radical and borders on religion, for all the wrong reasons. History teaches us that ideologies almost always end up in a fiasco. Take heed in that lesson. > There are many other details as well - in my previous > mail. You mean the STL bugs? I note you elegantly side stepped my main issues with GCC - non portability and crappy code encouragement, as well as lack of advanced optimization capabilities. I couldn't care less about ideologies. It's the result that matters in this case, and the result is that I don't have to pay anything for a professional grade compiler suite that has advanced optimization capabilities and encourages me to write portable and clean code. I secured my copy, so corporate interests can change in the next five minutes. Did you? And, if I really got pissed off, I could disassemble and resource the whole thing - you know, like we did in the old days? Nobody would give you the source code to a killer intro or a good Cruncher or a good monitor - you disassembled the code and resourced it yourself. I could do the same thing with Sun Studio if I had to, so I couldn't care less if it were open or not, and neither should you. Ideology is bad. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
