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    SubjectRe: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]
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    On Thursday 26 June 2003 13:40, Larry McVoy wrote:
    > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:45:21PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
    > > > 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.
    > >
    > > [incremental changes given as example]
    >
    > Incremental changes != redo. Redo is a ~$10M project.


    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.

    Both of these are comple rewrites. Not incremental changes.

    Claiming these are "incremental" is like claiming Linux is an incremental
    change to the AT&T Kernel...
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