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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: GNU Support (was: GNU Make 3.58 on HP-UX 7.0 ?)
Message-ID: <1340145@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 04:18:39 GMT
References: <1990Sep17.201337.15659@bpdsun1.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> > That, plus we have a significant investment in our products, and many customers
> > have an investment in some of our value added features like FPA support,
> > Fortran, etc.   [ ... ]
> 
> that, and paranoid lawyers are probably the real reason...  
> 
> 
> actually, it really surprises me that HP doesnt distribute gnu
> products.  the have given the FSF quite a few computers and a fair
> amount of money.  it is obvious that hp people in fairly high places
> know about the FSF and support it.  

Yes, we fund some FSF activity to port Gnu stuff to HP-UX. In fact, they
(the ports) are freely available from public sources: it's just that we
(HP) don't distribute it directly. Some groups within HP are looking into
making contributed software like this available for customers without
support, but I have no idea what the status of that initiative is today..

Also, to re-iterate a point made about gdb and C++: the HP C++ product
comes with an enhanced xdb (xdb++, soon to be folded back into the regular
xdb), that understands C++ *very well*. It's probably the most
sophisticated C++ debugger around on Unix, even if I say it myself.
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