Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu!ddj From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Freeware and the collapse of capitalism Message-ID: <12573@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 2 Apr 91 15:01:20 GMT References: <9103310821.AA09756@nextasy2.eecs.wsu.edu> <4754@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Organization: Castle Anthrax, Pittsburgh Lines: 11 In article <4754@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Mr. Usenet News Manager) writes: > If you ask the GNU folks how to use gcc with someone else's product, > you generally get a response on the order of "We don't like > propriatary software, so please don't use our products with XXXXXX. > Use YYYYY instead." Sure. Now have your company get a support contract with Cygnus or any of the other entities that provide support for a fee for FSF software, and see what *they* say. -- DdJ