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- From: rvloon@cv.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software II
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.093855.17822@cv.ruu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:38:55 GMT
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- In <1993Jan25.145544.63165@cc.usu.edu> sl1yn@millville.declab.usu.edu (869483 Denys Larry) writes:
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- |" I find it interesting that when a poster makes a very cogent point
- |"about how much better than GCC would a compiler have to be in order
- |"for you to purchase it, not one poster that has followed up has come
- |"up with an answer.
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- A compiler needs to be a lot better than GCC - that has been said multiple
- times and I cannot agree more.
-
- |"All they do is harp about what a wonderful thing
- |"GCC is because it "ups the ante" or "establishes a floor" or weeds out
- |"the bad software out there. But not one has answered the poster's point.
- |"That's because they cannot. The point is true, as you would know if you
- |"took a single course in economics.
-
- The only reason that people need commercial compilers is support.
- GCC does not guarantee support, or even that it 'works'. If it doesn't work,
- you can send in a bug-report. It will eventually be fixed - hopefully. With
- commercial compilers you have paid a certain company to give you a working
- product - if it does not function as it should, you have the right to complain
- and demand that your problem is fixed ASAP. In other words, you get what you
- pay for.
- --
- Ronald van Loon | Consider this: In the United States, an automobile is
- (rvloon@cv.ruu.nl) | stolen EVERY 14.7 SECONDS.
- 3DCV Group, Utrecht | If that statistic scares you, think how we felt when we
- The Netherlands | made it up. - Dave Barry, "CHRISTMAS BUYERS GUIDE"
-