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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:14:09 +0000
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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