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Article #1828Re: harmful effects of gnu software II
From: Magnus Y Alvestad
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:16
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:16
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>>>>> On 26 Jan 93 16:01:43 MDT, sl1yn@millville.declab.usu.edu >>>>> (869483 Denys Larry) said: >> Perhaps you can apply some of that ivory tower knowledge >> and answer the real question that runs through this thread: >> Just how much better than GCC would a compiler have to be >> in order for people to pay, say, $100 for it? Would enough >> people buy it to justify development costs. No. Those people that are planning to make money from making just another compiler will have to give it up. Hell, there must be thousands of programmers out there that can only make compilers. They'll starve and die! No wait! They can make compilers for Macs! Because that horrible plague GPL (General Plague Lisence) hasn't infected those, thanks to Apple. -Magnus
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Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!alf.uib.no!alf!magnus From: magnus@brisk.ii.uib.no (Magnus Y Alvestad) Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software II In-Reply-To: sl1yn@millville.declab.usu.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 16:01:43 MDT Message-ID: <1993Jan27.021627.10657@alf.uib.no> Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Reply-To: magnus@johanna2.hsr.no Organization: UVBS -> SFK/T-DSA / SOPS - HOS / RNoN References: <C1CD82.4Gt@news2.cis.umn.edu> <C1FBoE.Gy6@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan25.145544.63165@cc.usu.edu> <1k1sf5INNbb5@almaak.usc.edu> <1993Jan26.160144.63218@cc.usu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 02:16:27 GMT Lines: 17