To: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>,
        djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: LIP AT odie DOT ee DOT wits DOT ac DOT za
Date:         11 Mar 93 15:28:21 SAT
Subject:      Re: thanks and GNUish advocacy

>.... but if you're doing real work with GNU
> which you are getting for free, you can afford about 300MB of disk for
> the cost of supplying one programmer with say Zortech C/C++ or Borland
> C/C++.  For four programmers, you can get a 1GB monster disk at that
>.....

Actually I'm on a crusade to convince people that GCC is better than
BC, MSC, TC and ZTC.  Free software is a big plus (plus), cross
platform portability is another, good support a third good reason :-)
(sound familiar to Borland user's) .

Has anybody had to write a motivation for converting to GCC?  If
so, could I (& others with similar needs) get a copy of it?

Lastly, I would like to see the FSF add Microsoft to their list of
"no-no-no" companies.  The recent comments on Visual C++ and the
Microsoft support personnel combined with my own bitter experiences
with their Pascal, FORTRAN Qbasic and C compilers compel me to write
this.

Hopefully comments on the above statements won't overload the
Internet.

Bye for now,
Tony.