Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:45:21 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] |
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:39:52AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:32:38PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > Your model is fine, there is nothing wrong with it but there isn't a lot > > > right with it either. You can't really grow your business under that > > > model. > > > > I don't disagree with this statement, but I don't see its relevance. > > What inference can you make from this? > > > > Are you asserting that the trend toward commoditisation of software > > isn't real -- that companies are _not_ becoming less inclined to pay to > > license proprietary software when there is a Free alternative which they > > can use instead? Or merely that it makes you unhappy? > > Creating software costs money. > Open source doesn't produce very much money. > A world in which all software is produced via support contracts doesn't > look like a world in which there is very much new software. > > Yes, that makes me unhappy. I like programming, I like being paid to > do it. I've done the consulting gig and that's a crappy way to live, > you don't make enough money to actually fix things, you make enough to > hack things so they sort of work. No customer is going to pay you to > rearchitect GCC when what they want is support for their new chip. > > That's probably a good enough test case. Explain to me how your support > contracts are ever going to provide enough money to redo GCC or build > something equally substantial. >...
HP sponsored one year of Mark Mitchell's work as GCC Release Manager.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory have sponsored the work for a new hand-crafted recursive-descent C++ parser for GCC.
Apple contributed a precompiled header implementation for GCC.
> Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
cu Adrian
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