From: "Damian Yerrick" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake? Lines: 35 Organization: Pin Eight Software X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: X-Trace: /bNDCz3AGSfJ6QB2kTxgKsnC8bvTMTCdP6GYLNzK9/6ZyJ5ymFrVsCLrzxhpEy5yOqbZI2w2uWRk!FOz7yxGLGwoBb+2cx4fH3R9eN5kh75oPx6Ot/4YZBSes40P/i6hIxXVFQLQ7YNMQdaYo X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:32:27 GMT Distribution: world Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:32:27 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Jens Luedicke" wrote: > > > For me the "real" GPL looks more strict than the license of a > > commercial compiler: It requires you to release the source with your > > programs. > This is real freedom. Even if Microsoft would release their programs > with source, this wouldn't be the end for Microsoft. I think that the > majority of the Microsoft-Users have no idea about programming and > how to work with the sources. But there's always that very significant minority who would be interested in source code, if only to fix all the fscking instability in Wind0ze. Then there's the Wine crew, who is working on a free Windows clone for X-based systems, as opposed to the Cygwin team, who is porting XFree86 to Windows + DirectX. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ View full .sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html and now you must pay...