Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 13:16:03 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030104131212.03837e10@localhost> 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>
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At 11:58 AM 1/4/2003, Mike Jeays wrote: >GCC is a great gift to the world, No, it is not. It's an apple with a poison pill inside: Richard Stallman's vicious and destructive agenda. >and has made a huge difference to >the development of open-source software. Yes, it has. It has made most such software dependent upon a tool that is GPLed, which is a very bad thing. >It can't be all that mediocre >if it has destroyed the market for higher-quality compilers! Not true at all. People will put up with mediocrity if it's available at no cost. To the point where it drives out much better commercial products. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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