UNIX admin wrote: >> 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. >
Please drop this thread. It is a pure waste of bandwidth and time. Doug _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
