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Subject: Re: About compiler optimizations

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:27:48 12/21/02

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On December 20, 2002 at 23:53:16, Walter Faxon wrote:

>On December 20, 2002 at 16:52:19, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
><snip>
>>m$ decision is to earn more money on it seemingly. Well that is their
>>choice. It isn't mine to actually pay for all that. gcc is for free :)
><snip>
>
>
>Freedom isn't free!  All chess programmers should please consider giving a
>donation to the Free Software Foundation which sponsors gcc and many other
>useful software tools.
>
>http://www.gnu.org/home.html

Comon get real. They want to do things for free. That's their choice.
Not mine. If you want to pay something then give it to the
programmers directly. Don't give it to some foundation that swallows
it! That's far more worthless than paying $1 million 'organisation
costs' to organize a computerchess worldchampionship!

This is a very bad request for money for a wrong goal! If they can't
do it for free then don't say free software works!!

Why doesn't FSF go to IBM and propose creating a competitative product
to challenge windows? IBM is said to support linux a lot. If so how much
didn't FSF get enough from them already?

In short, if i contribute a change to gnu software,
how do i ever see something of that money to pay for my time?

Reality is. No one sees money. So why pay some kind of weird organisation?

Best regards,
Vincent



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