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From: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states)
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Date: 24 Aug 89 20:04:58 GMT
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In article <107@euteal.ele.tue.nl> mart@ele.tue.nl (Mart van Stiphout) writes:
>In article <738@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>>So?  I've used well-supported commecial software too.  Nonetheless,
>>the GNU stuff works better and is, in effect, better supported than
>>quite a bit of the commercial software I've used.
>
>How can you make a du,b generalization like this `the GNU stuff works better'.
>Is there some physical law that says GTNU software is always the best???

Did you read my message?

I said better than _quite a bit_ of the commercial software _I've
used_.  I did not say it was better than all commercial software
or even than all commercial software I've used.  Much less did
I say it will always be better.

Give me a break.

>>Who said it must be better.  But it's certainly not always worse.
>
>You yourself claim it is better. See your statement above.

No, you see my statement above.  You completely misread it.

-- Jeff