GCC 2.0 vs something else

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1992 23:49

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The primary advantage of GCC is that it's free, and its technical
quality is secondary.  GCC isn't necessarily better than all
proprietary compilers if you ignore its primary advantage.

But no matter how good a proprietary compiler may be,
promoting it on this FSF mailing list/newsgroup is misuse of
the list.  Please use the FSF mailing lists/newsgroups
to promote free software only.

Does this mean people shouldn't state the facts of comparisons?  Not
at all.  The distinction between talking about facts and promoting a
product is a fine one, but not a difficult one.

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