🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jun18.042950.4473@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim
Showalter) writes:

   I find this [the quality of GCC], by the way, to be totally
   bizarre, since it seemingly flies in the face of 6,000 years of
   free-market economic theory.

You're probably just taking GNU at face value.  Try thinking of the GNU
project as a mechanism by which industry and academic sites can pursue
cooperative ventures without involving lawyers, "strategic alliances,"
lawyers, marketing people, lawyers, and other complications of doing
business in today's markets.

The GNU project is subsidized by donations of money, time, personnel,
equipment, expertise, and many other resources.  The key to its success
is that it tends to be "underground" (although this is becoming less so
as time passes, I think), allowing people to accomplish things that they
couldn't if they were forced to set things up formally.

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