GCC 4 Preview in RHEL 4

Posted Feb 25, 2005 11:49 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to: GCC 4 Preview in RHEL 4 by rmyorston
Parent article: Fedora Core 4 Test 1 slips

To interoperate with a third-party product we need to use their closed-source C++ libraries, which were built with the RH72 GCC 3.0 compiler. These libraries are compatible with nothing in the modern world.

Quoting Richard Stallman, the quote I use in my USENET and mailing list sig:

"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master."

Let some closed source program be your master, and you are forever enslaved to the whims of its master -- until you break free of that closed source bondage, anyway.

Duncan