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Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states)

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From: Mart van Stiphout
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1989 10:50
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In article <738@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>So?  I've used well-supported commecial software too.  Nonetheless,
>the GNU stuff works better and is, in effect, better supported than
>quite a bit of the commercial software I've used.

How can you make a du,b generalization like this `the GNU stuff works better'.
Is there some physical law that says GTNU software is always the best???

>>Gnu starts out by relying on the vendor supplied !commercial! software
>>they despise. If they were honest guys, they would start off with writing
>>their own operating system.
>
>No, designing and manufacturing their own chips, and getting their
>own raw materials.  Give me a break.

Didn't gnu intend to provide a new "free" unix version. Where is it?

>Who said it must be better.  But it's certainly not always worse.

You yourself claim it is better. See your statement above.


Mart van Stiphout
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From: mart@ele.tue.nl (Mart van Stiphout)
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Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states)
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Date: 22 Aug 89 10:50:51 GMT
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