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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Lotus 1-2-3 was compiled with GNU C compiler!?
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Date: 15 Jul 90 02:20:08 GMT
References: <17032@haddock.ima.isc.com> <2699D59A.D60@tct.uucp>
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In article <2699D59A.D60@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
| According to peterf@haddock.ima.isc.com (Peter Fischman):
| > I recently came off a project that ported a DOS application,
| > Lotus 1-2-3 (you may have heard of it), to System V and Xenix.
| > We developed on 386/ix and used gcc and gmake.
|                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| Oh, this is rich.
| 
| Lotus ("We're Not Competitive, So We Sue Everyone") Corporation
| compiles its flagship product... with the GNU C compiler.
| 
| I'm so amused I could just vomit.

  And if you compile with gcc you then have to distribute the source
with the binary, right? This could be interesting if someone wants to
see (a) what the copyleft means and (b) if it has any force in law.
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