From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 27 04:56:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD8E37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 04:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5EC4400E for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 04:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.6p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h5RBuBtW017430; Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:56:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3EFBFB70.B6121D9E@mindspring.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <3EFBFB70.B6121D9E@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:55:58 +0200 To: Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:56:24 -0000 At 1:08 AM -0700 2003/06/27, Terry Lambert wrote: >> bzip2 - could be reimplemented > > Or ignored. The Unisys patent which caused it to be written has > expired (Welcome home, compress, we missed you!). Compress is okay, but people have come to rely on gzip and bzip2. IMO, perhaps the best thing is to move them to ports. Unless, that is, they're used anywhere in the build process. >> cc - find an alternative compiler? From where? > > TenDRA. Watcom. Intel. Lots of choices here. How many of these work on non-Intel hardware, such as Alpha or SPARC? -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)