[csw-maintainers] Solaris Studio vs GCC

[Joerg Schilling]

James Lee <james at opencsw.org> wrote:

> <quote src="http://gcc.gnu.org/">
> GNU system was developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense that
> it respects the user's freedom.
> </quote>
>
> This includes users exercising the freedom to not use gcc.  As most of
> the projects causing problems are run by people with a quasi-religious
> fanaticism to openness and freedom the best hope in effecting change to
> the upstream software is to play on this and point out that software
> that is locked in to one compiler or system is not open and contravenes
> their own beliefs.

Well said!

Unfortunately Sun did not publish cc as OSS even though the legal process was 
ready years ago. Did someone look for gcc alternatives?

I am asking this as it may become important for compiling Schilix-ON in the 
future.

Jörg

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