Re: Richard Stallman is responsible for the shrinking economy

Chris H wrote:
I think it was taken as read that it would be fixed. Commercial
compilers tent to do that. It is the discipline they work to. Rather
than fixing problems if and when the spirit moves them as per Gcc.

As has been said before in this thread, many contributors to
open source projects are in fact paid by large corporations to do it.
A recent example is:

<http://www.h-online.com/open/Intel-wants-to-co-develop-the-GCC--/news/113065>

"14 April 2009, 18:09
Intel wants to co-develop the GCC

Three Intel employees are to contribute to the development of the GNU
Compiler Collection. So far, corporate contributions to the GCC have
been made by AMD and by other processor forges, while Intel focused on
the development of its Intel Compiler Collection (ICC)."

It is not as if users of gcc were solely in the mercy of a bunch of
hippies.
--
Pertti
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