[Gllug] Gates, self proclaimed father of open-source

[Nix]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, SteveC spake:
> * Nix (nix at esperi.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, SteveC gibbered:
> 
> I resent the last word there...

It's randomly selected :) I guess I should change `gibbered' to
something else, it's the only attribution line people have ever
complained about. (On the other hand, it's the only one people have ever
noticed that I know of ;) a double-edged sword.)

>> Regrettably wrong :( I don't know if they fought or not, but the
>> mass-available PC was, while useful, not a necessary condition for free
>> software.
> 
> I wasn't meaning it was - but it *was* a condition for normal people to 
> actually use FSF type software.

Kieran's answered this better than I could; his answer stands :)

(that list is slightly outdated, GCC now supports a few more
arcitectures than are listed there, such as the cris-axis-* and
mmix-knuth-mmixware --- although both of these are not yet in any
*released* GCC, and you'd be hard-pressed to call the latter
`normal'...)

-- 
`You're the only person I know who can't tell the difference
 between a pair of trousers and a desk.' --- Kieran, to me

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