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In article <fred.745184346@ivhs.mot.com>, fred@ivhs.mot.com (Fred Brunner) writes:
|>rcrw90@email.mot.com (Mike Waters) writes:
|>
|>>A few weeks ago there was a post to gnu.misc.discuss which claimed that 
|>>Motorola was funding some sort og GNU support.  I have been unable to
|>>find any more detail concerning this either from the author or internally.
|>
|>MCG ships gcc as the compiler for Delta Series boxes running our SVR 4
|>port. I believe that they shoot money to Cygnus Support for maintenance,
|>etc.
|>
|>>Does anyone know if this is true and if so who is the contact persona
|>
|>I'd imagine that your colleagues in MCG legal could help you on this one.
|>
|>-FB

This prompts a thought that I've had several times over the last months:

1) Motorola wants to become a company that can produce great software;
2) To produce great software you need great tools;
3) You also need contractual support for the tools;
4) GNU makes the greatest tools around (gcc, rcs, emacs, etc);

Conclusion: Motorola should ensure that all Motorola projects have access
to good, cheap support for GNU tools.

We could do this either by negotiating a company-wide policy with Cygnus,
or we could do this by creating an internal support organisation.  Either
way, I know that it would make a big change in my life - I could stop trying
to use DEC's c89 and Sun's acc, and start using gcc and even g++.  I can't
believe that the cost, spread over the whole of Motorola, would be
significant.

If anybody has real suggestions on how/who I could push to think about
actually implementing this, let me know.

Lezz