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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Best C Compiler
Keywords: Compilers
Message-ID: <3317@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 18:47:55 GMT
References: <1990Mar19.175316.16898@Octopus.COM> <3130@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <8847@chaph.usc.edu>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <8847@chaph.usc.edu>, wilber@sal-sun48.usc.edu (John Wilber) writes:
> In article <1424@polari.UUCP> tima@polari (tim anderson) writes:
# 
# #have since felt that we made a bad choice - NOT because the product was 
# #no good, but because Metaware has started shipping religious literature
# #with their C compiler. While I may or may not have qualms with their
# #religion, I find this to be incredibly unprofessional, leading me to question
# #the company as a whole...
# 
# What do you mean, religious literature?  Do you mean religious, as if to
# espouse a certain language, operating system, or hardware (like FORTH,
# Unix, or Macintosh)?  Or do you mean RELIGIOUS, as if to push a certain
# faith, like Judaism, Hare Krisha, or Seventh Day Adventism?
# 
# I think you're talking about RELIGIOUS here, but I find that difficult
# to believe.  After all, WordPerfect Corporation is owned and operated by
# Mormons, but they don't try to change their customers' beliefs in any
# way.
# 
# If you are talking about RELIGIOUS, I would find the practice of putting
# literature in their products offensive (and unprofessional, like you)
# enough to return it and buy from someone else.
# 
# * John J. Wilber           * "Im Himmel gibts kein Bier zum trinken wir *

Metaware is, according to their advertising for open positions, a 
"Christ-centered" company.  (Translation: evangelical Christians
run the company, and as near I can tell, nearly all the employees
are also.  They frequently hold prayer meetings during the day at
work, and nearly everyone goes).  If you don't like the extraneous 
literature they ship with their product, throw it away.  Their C 
compiler produces extremely optimized code, from my workings with it.

In my dealings with Metaware while working for a customer of theirs,
I never had the issue of religion raised, or even suggested.

*I* wouldn't do things the way Metaware does -- but that's hardly a
reason to not buy a product from them.  (Tell me, if you suggested
not buying software from a company that was vigorously, unambiguously
Jewish, would the Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League be called in to
harrass you?)
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
Politicians prefer unarmed peasants.  Ask the Lithuanians.
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