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Re: Wanted: blurb supporting GNU integrity

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From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 17:59
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In article <9110082353.AA06923@wubios> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
>A minor point I would include is that problems with GNU products can
>be solved in-house.  With commercial software you must depend on the
>distributor taking action.  -David-

You're making a very large assumption.  Namely that the user has both the time
and expertise to solve it.  We spent a month trying to solve problems with
g++ and finally gave up.  Presumably we could have paid money to Cygnus to
solve it for us - but it was cheaper and took less time to buy a commercial
C++ compiler, take the resulting C code and port *that* to the machine.
-- 
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: blurb supporting GNU integrity
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Date: 10 Oct 91 17:59:17 GMT
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