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Article #1801Re: harmful effects of gnu software
From: Greg Lindahl
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:36
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:36
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In article <mwalker-250193094209@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com> mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker) writes: > How much incentive does a company that makes "free" compilers have >for innovation? Almost none. Note: porting is not innovation. A lot. People who want to pay for support are willing to pay more to a company that they think is on the "bleeding edge". I suspect that a big chunk of Cygnus' customers are people who like the notion that a lot of GNU development happens there, and their staff did a lot of work on g++ and a lot of work on instruction scheduling. It gives me warm fuzzies when I'm trying to decide "which support company will be better at solving my problems?" If _you_ don't find higher profits to be an incentive, I'm not sure what you're looking for.
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software Message-ID: <1993Jan25.223623.11624@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia References: <MIKE.93Jan23142230@mystix.cs.uoregon.edu> <mwalker-250193094209@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com> Distribution: gnu Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:36:23 GMT Lines: 15