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- From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.223623.11624@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:36:23 GMT
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- In article <mwalker-250193094209@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com> mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker) writes:
-
- > How much incentive does a company that makes "free" compilers have
- >for innovation? Almost none. Note: porting is not innovation.
-
- A lot. People who want to pay for support are willing to pay more to a
- company that they think is on the "bleeding edge". I suspect that a
- big chunk of Cygnus' customers are people who like the notion that a
- lot of GNU development happens there, and their staff did a lot of
- work on g++ and a lot of work on instruction scheduling. It gives me
- warm fuzzies when I'm trying to decide "which support company will be
- better at solving my problems?"
-
- If _you_ don't find higher profits to be an incentive, I'm not sure
- what you're looking for.
-