Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 08:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Kent D. Lottis" <kentl AT bdc DOT cirrus DOT com>
To: Kevin Baca <baca AT crl DOT ucsd DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Commercial software built with GNU

The guy in the office next door is an ex-Boeing developer. He worked on 
the brand-new (just FAA-approved) 777. All (well, most) of their 
cabin-management software was done with GNU. This is the system that controls
air-conditioning, turns seat lights on/off, call the flight attendant,
adjusts volume on the headphones, etc.

All in all about 100k lines.

He has an interesting anecdote about trying to explain to the bean-counters
that they were using _free_ tools. The finance people needed some 
non-zero sum to enter into their accounting logs, so they bought a SimTel
CD (or some such beast) to keep them happy...

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=  Kent D. Lottis        Internet: kentl AT bdc DOT cirrus DOT com   =
=  Cirrus Logic, Inc.    Bellevue Design Center (BDC)     =
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