From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:14:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87elj6zgsl.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020227125118.N26250@cackle.proxima.alt.za>
lucio@proxima.alt.za (Lucio De Re) writes:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:20:36AM +0000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> >
> > Incidentally, the reason GCC has gobs of people working on it is
> > pretty darn simple. It's because GCC has a license which encourages
> > gobs of people to work on it.
> >
> "Incidentally", he says! Licence to bloat?
>
> On the NetBSD mailing lists we have a saying: "If you want Linux, you
> know where to find it."
Odd that NetBSD uses GCC, isn't it? No, it's no great wonder why more
people use GCC than 8c. There are two reasons:
GCC generates better code
GCC has a more liberal license than 8c.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 20:28 presotto
2002-02-26 21:34 ` [9fans] compilers - was " Matt H
2002-02-26 22:06 ` Theo Honohan
2002-02-27 0:21 ` Mike Haertel
2002-02-28 15:11 ` AMSRL-CI-CN
2002-02-28 16:55 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-27 6:54 ` [9fans] " Eric Dorman
2002-02-27 10:20 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-27 10:51 ` Lucio De Re
2002-02-27 13:27 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-27 14:20 ` Ish Rattan
2002-02-27 22:44 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-28 4:41 ` Lucio De Re
2002-02-28 10:19 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-28 10:14 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2002-02-28 10:49 ` Matt H
2002-03-01 13:25 ` chad
2002-02-28 3:26 ` [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9 [really GPL again!] Eric Dorman
2002-02-28 9:57 ` [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9 ozan s yigit
2002-02-28 14:55 ` AMSRL-CI-CN
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-07 4:37 okamoto
2002-03-06 9:50 Roger Peppe
2002-03-05 17:29 forsyth
2002-03-04 14:33 Russ Cox
2002-03-04 14:02 nigel
2002-03-05 4:16 ` Martin C.Atkins
2002-03-04 14:01 anothy
2002-03-04 13:35 anothy
2002-03-01 17:21 anothy
2002-03-04 10:07 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-28 22:30 bwc
2002-02-28 21:34 dmr
2002-02-28 18:56 David Gordon Hogan
2002-02-28 18:41 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-28 17:19 anothy
2002-03-01 10:03 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-28 15:22 presotto
2002-02-28 16:35 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-02-28 16:55 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-01 8:27 ` Martin C.Atkins
2002-03-04 10:07 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-04 13:59 ` Martin C.Atkins
2002-02-28 11:03 Bengt Kleberg
2002-02-28 16:41 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-01 0:54 ` Richard Uhtenwoldt
2002-02-27 14:19 presotto
2002-02-27 10:57 Bengt Kleberg
2002-02-27 11:10 ` Lucio De Re
2002-02-27 10:45 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-27 10:26 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-28 10:13 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-26 21:05 forsyth
2002-02-26 20:25 Russ Cox
2002-02-26 19:05 presotto
2002-02-26 19:47 ` Mike Haertel
2002-02-27 10:07 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-27 10:29 ` Lucio De Re
2002-02-27 12:21 ` Graham Gallagher
2002-02-27 12:59 ` Lucio De Re
2002-02-27 21:07 ` Graham Gallagher
2002-02-28 9:57 ` ozan s yigit
2002-02-28 10:18 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-28 16:01 ` AMSRL-CI-CN
2002-02-28 14:55 ` AMSRL-CI-CN
2002-02-26 18:00 andrey mirtchovski
2002-02-26 14:30 rob pike
2002-02-26 14:25 rob pike
2002-02-26 14:24 rob pike
2002-02-26 17:13 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-26 17:44 ` Dan Cross
2002-02-27 10:07 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-26 17:48 ` Quinn Dunkan
2002-02-26 19:40 ` William Josephson
2002-02-26 11:24 geoff
2002-02-25 14:59 andrey mirtchovski
2002-02-25 14:41 rob pike
2002-02-25 17:10 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-25 14:39 rob pike
2002-02-25 17:10 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-25 14:34 rob pike
2002-02-25 17:10 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-25 17:25 ` Dan Cross
2002-02-25 17:54 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-26 10:26 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-26 10:27 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-02-25 1:30 okamoto
2002-02-22 13:29 rob pike
2002-02-22 13:43 ` plan9
2002-02-25 10:09 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-22 17:11 ` Dan Cross
2002-02-22 12:42 forsyth
2002-02-22 12:42 forsyth
2002-02-25 10:10 ` phaet0n
2002-02-22 11:30 sape
2002-02-22 9:58 phaet0n
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