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

[Kieran Barry]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, SteveC stated, in a most erudite fashion:

> * Nix (nix at esperi.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, SteveC gibbered:
> 
> I resent the last word there...
> 
> > 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.
> 
You seem to be defending a very dodgy point, all relying on the
definition of the word "normal". And your definition seems to be
"someone like me who was really badly informed up to recently. Anyone
who has tried something I haven't, must be a freak".

So, what _is_ your definition of the word normal?

(This should exclude the following architectures, which were taken from 
the gcc home page:


     1750a-*-* 
     a29k 
     a29k-*-bsd 
     alpha*-*-* 
     alpha*-dec-osf* 
     alphaev5-cray-unicosmk* 
     arc-*-elf 
     arm-*-aout 
     arm-*-elf 
     arm*-*-linux-gnu 
     arm-*-riscix 
     avr 
     c4x 
     DOS 
     dsp16xx 
     elxsi-elxsi-bsd 
     *-*-freebsd* 
     h8300-hms 
     hppa*-hp-hpux* 
     hppa*-hp-hpux9 
     hppa*-hp-hpux10 
     hppa*-hp-hpux11 
     i370-*-* 
     *-*-linux-gnu 
     i?86-*-linux*oldld 
     i?86-*-linux*aout 
     i?86-*-linux* 
     i?86-*-sco 
     i?86-*-sco3.2v4 
     i?86-*-sco3.2v5* 
     i?86-*-udk 
     i?86-*-isc 
     i?86-*-esix 
     i?86-ibm-aix 
     i?86-sequent-bsd 
     i?86-sequent-ptx1* i?86-sequent-ptx2* 
     i?86-*-sysv3* 
     i860-intel-osf* 
     ia64-*-linux 
     *-lynx-lynxos 
     *-ibm-aix* 
     m32r-*-elf 
     m68000-hp-bsd 
     m6811-elf 
     m6812-elf 
     m68k-altos 
     m68k-apple-aux 
     m68k-att-sysv 
     m68k-bull-sysv 
     m68k-crds-unox 
     m68k-hp-hpux 
     m68k-*-nextstep* 
     m68k-ncr-* 
     m68k-sun 
     m68k-sun-sunos4.1.1 
     m88k-*-svr3 
     m88k-*-dgux 
     m88k-tektronix-sysv3 
     mips-*-* 
     mips-dec-* 
     mips-mips-bsd 
     mips-mips-riscos* 
     mips-sgi-irix4 
     mips-sgi-irix5 
     mips-sgi-irix6 
     mips-sony-sysv 
     ns32k-encore 
     ns32k-*-genix 
     ns32k-sequent 
     ns32k-utek 
     powerpc*-*-* powerpc-*-sysv4 
     powerpc-*-darwin* 
     powerpc-*-elf powerpc-*-sysv4 
     powerpc-*-linux-gnu* 
     powerpc-*-netbsd* 
     powerpc-*-eabiaix 
     powerpc-*-eabisim 
     powerpc-*-eabi 
     powerpcle-*-elf powerpcle-*-sysv4 
     powerpcle-*-eabisim 
     powerpcle-*-eabi 
     powerpcle-*-winnt powerpcle-*-pe 
     romp-*-aos romp-*-mach 
     #s390-*-linux* 
     #s390x-*-linux* 
     *-*-solaris2* 
     sparc-sun-solaris2* 
     sparc-sun-solaris2.7 
     *-*-solaris2.8 
     sparc-sun-sunos4* 
     sparc-unknown-linux-gnulibc1 
     sparc64-*-* 
     *-*-sysv* 
     vax-dec-ultrix 
     we32k-*-* 
     Microsoft Windows 
     OS/2 
     Older systems 

     all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.) 
)

Regards

Kieran



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