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
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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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