> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:40:56AM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > Ask Richard if GCC was ever initially bootstrapped using a non-GPL
> > compiler suite.
>
> Ah, but that's the point!
>
> The bitkeeper license won't allow you to bootstrap a competing project
> using bitkeeper. If the same clauses existed in the licenses of these
> commercial compilers, we wouldn't have GCC.
<raised brows>
_really_?
No, really?
How quaint. So RMS et.al. would be unable to implement a simple C compiler
in MACRO-10 and use it for bootstrap? Or clone aforementioned MACRO-10?
Pathetic. And I suspect undeserved - I'm no fan of RMS, but I don't believe
that what you claim is true.
Now could we fscking take that crap to some place where it would be on-topic?
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