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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Re: Experience with GCC on MPW?
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Date: 22 Mar 91 15:31:39 GMT
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Eugenio Sanchez Pe~a writes in a message to All

>Does anyone out there have any experience, good or bad, with the
>fairly recent port of GNU GCC to MPW? 
ESP>   The GNU project has as a deadline not to develop anything for 
ESP> the Macintosh, since Apple is claiming exclusive rights for their 
ESP> look-and-feel interface. Perhaps someone took the front-end sources 
ESP> and made his own C compiler, but it shouldn't be named 'GCC'. 

Aw...

Does someone resent the idea that it might be illegal to make use of 7 years
of work and zillions of dollars of R&D without paying for it? Poor babies...

(includes most of the computer industry I'm afraid... but then again, how many
programmers are also artists? "Source code should be copy-right-able but not
ICONs or User-Interface attributes" (Get real, oh wondrous members of the ACM
--artists have rights and abilities too, and their work for a company deserves
equal protection under the Law))


Lawson
 

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