Re: J'accuse

In article <h8ag2r$bju$1@xxxxxxxx> jn@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Dik T. Winter a écrit :
Everybody is able to get and use gcc for free, even if it is for
commercial and/or educational use. That is, the compiler is actually
free and comes with complete source. And nobody from the developers
will ever earn anything for their work.

When I implemented a JIT for linux, I asked one of the people that
wrote that code a question.

About what code are you talking? Is the code you did ask about free and
open source?

When you mention Redhat, Suse and others: what they provide (and what
is not so easy to obtain, but can be done), is a complete operating
system.

They did not paid for the development of that system. The biggest part
was done by unpaid programmers.

Right, they provide additional service, and if you do not want that
additional service, you can do without it.

My institute elected to supply some 200 of the about 250 computers
present with variants of Linux, all from bundled versions, like Fedora,
Debian, Suse and some others. (The remainder, mostly not used in
research have some version of Windows installed.)

Your institue paid for commercial use then. Why is so bad that I do the
same?

That is not bad. It is when you state that your compiler is free that you
are wrong. It is only free in a limited number of circumstances. And
compare that to gcc which actually *is* free for everybody to obtain for
whatever purpose.
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