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>>>>> On 12 Aug 93 19:39:06 GMT, fred@ivhs.mot.com (Fred Brunner) said:

>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.

Fred> MCG ships gcc as the compiler for Delta Series boxes running our SVR 4
Fred> port. I believe that they shoot money to Cygnus Support for maintenance,
Fred> etc.

Yes we ship GCC as the default compiler for SVR4. No, we do not send
money to Cygnus or to the Free Software Foundation. 

I think that this is a disappointment.  The Computer Group used to pay a
lot of money to compiler vendors which provided compilers that are
inferior to GCC. We replaced those compilers with a free compiler which
performs better and is easier to maintain. (We have one person in the
Computer Group who ported and maintains GCC for three different OS
releases! Of course, there are countless others outside of Motorola who
also "helped" us provide GCC).

Many people agree that Motorola should help FSF in some manner. As of
recently I know that this has not happened because I have seen mail from
Richard Stallman saying so. Unfortunately, everyone seems to have a
rational as to why some other entity within Motorola should be the one
to foot the bill.

There are ways to help the FSF other than having Motorola make a large
donation to the FSF. Have your department purchase GNU source from the
FSF on tape or CD ROM. Stallman has told me that this is their primary
source of funds. 

Don't local managers have signature authority for making small
purchases? If you use GNU software, have your department purchase source
or manuals from FSF. If lots of individual groups did this it would
start to repay our debt to the FSF.


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