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- From: mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software II
- Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 00:21:55 GMT
- Organization: Novell, Inc.
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- References: <C1CD82.4Gt@news2.cis.umn.edu> <C1FBoE.Gy6@news2.cis.umn.edu> <KJJ.93Jan27125151@pondscum.phx.mcd.mot.com>
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- In article <KJJ.93Jan27125151@pondscum.phx.mcd.mot.com>,
- kjj@pondscum.phx.mcd.mot.com (Kevin Johnson) wrote:
- > In article <1993Jan27.093855.17822@cv.ruu.nl> rvloon@cv.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon) writes:
- >> 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.
- >
- > Hmmm...
- > 'demand'?
- > I think not.
-
- Sure you can demand it. Whether or not anybody listens.... of course, there
- are no garuantees with GCC, either in this respect.
-
- > --
- > #include <std_disclaimer>
- > "If it runs emacs it's a computer, otherwise it's a peripheral." - me
- > "I have two kitchen sinks: emacs and perl" - me
-
- "I often quote myself. It lends spice to my conversation." - Oscar Wilde
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