Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:00:03 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. Message-ID: <20030105003003.GC97018@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3E172EF3.9060704@rogers.com> References: <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <200212312041.gBVKfr183480@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112015.026a5530@localhost> <3E172EF3.9060704@rogers.com>
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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! Mike, this message was originally posted to the FreeBSD-chat mailing list, where by definition it's on topic. It is definitely not on topic for FreeBSD-questions. Please don't forward this sort of thing to this list. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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