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The question is all about the cost

The question is all about the cost

Posted Oct 5, 2008 7:50 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Plugging into GCC by drag
Parent article: Plugging into GCC

Not so simple. One company should introduce (and support) such modified version of GCC and another unrelated company can then produce proprietary plugin (if they will be related court can declare both the part of the cartel created to circumvent the GCC). And this makes the whole scheme totally unrealistic: second company is doing it's business on the basis of code produced by someone who has NO obligations to that company AND is not supported upstream... Very flacky foundations. And GCC developers will not tolerate such abuse: where kernel developers are in unenvious situation where they can punish abusers only at the expense of users (there are no way to use nVidia cards except by using binary module) GCC works just fine without any such proprietary blobs...

Sorry but to distribute proprietary plugin to GCC today is not hard. It's very hard... FSF will like to keep it this way - what's so strange about this?


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